Thread: The most dangerous occupation?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

It's sort of like the commute to work, but without traffic lights and cars.

So, I take it you regularly bounce off stone walls

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

So, I take it you regularly bounce off stone walls

Often feels like it.

An analysis of the most recent data set from Safe Work Australia found the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry recorded the highest number of injuries and fatalities from 2003 to 2014, with the 686 deaths recorded accounting for 23 per cent of total workplace deaths in the period.
In 2013-14 the combined industry recorded the third-highest number of worker's compensation claims, referring to 8.6 million hours worked.

Not surprising man machine mother nature interacting in a variable environment.

Or me getting home with a skinful and a stone cold pizza

When I was doing my apprentice ship I was told the trade with the shortest life expectancy was tool making. Stress being the killer. I started as tool maker till I was forty odd and the signs of stress where evident. So don`t do much in the way of tool making any more. Know of two toolmakers, one succeeded in topping him self and the other ended up as might as well got the job done right. What stress you say? Jobs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that take months to complete and only one mistake and you start again and all ways a dead line to meet. Remember one plastic die going in the bin due to a holes being incorrectly drilled. That was when there was a lot more manual work done. Now tool making is all CNC.
Cheers Hall

"The most dangerous job is actually being a housewife. 100 die from assault annually and 55,000 reported assaults by partners occur each year.
And no, not technically a job - but ask your better half how she sees it The most dangerous occupation?"


100 housewives dying annually is absolutely bloody appalling, but it doesn't tell the whole story. There were quite a few battered and dead guys in amongst that lot too.
The 55,000 assaults were for ALL domestic violence cases reported though - male/female, female/female and male/male relationships.
Last stats I checked showed male to female vs female to male domestic violence was roughly at a parity - only a few percent in it.
Children assaulted in the home was roughly 70% female perpetrators to 30% male.
Highest rate of domestic violence occurred in female/female relationships - ratio is at least 6 to 7 times higher than for male/female relationships.
Lowest rate of violence was in male/male relationships.
The findings are similar for the USA, UK and Canada or so one of my psychologist friends tells me.
I would hazard a guess that other countries are better or worse depending on many factors (cultural, economic, religious etc).
I don't condone any violence in any relationship, so it is sometimes hard for me to get my head around how things can get so bad as I luckily never experienced it in my family.

Edit: a couple of articles I saw last year on bias in DV reporting
Nocookies | The Australian
Exposing the domestic violence industry | Bettina Arndt

That is scary.

If refugee was an occupation then it would have to rate as there are currently about 60 million of them suffering many bad things, including slavery, assault, trauma, injuries etc.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

That is scary.

If refugee was an occupation then it would have to rate as there are currently about 60 million of them suffering many bad things, including slavery, assault, trauma, injuries etc.

in Australia?

I reckon being a husband is the most dangerous. Afterall statistically wives outlive their husbands. 😉