Civilian occupations with high fatal work injury rates

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Civilian occupations with high fatal work injury rates, 2018
Occupation	Fatal work injury rate (per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers)	Number of fatal work injuries
All workers	3.5	-
Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers	24.7	257
Construction managers	0.7	8
Food service managers	1.2	16
Property, real estate, and community association managers	2.7	17
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers	7.6	22
Registered nurses	0.4	13
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics	6.5	16
Fire fighters	3.4	32
Police and sheriff's patrol officers	13.7	108
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers	6.4	58
Supervisors of food preparation and serving workers	2.2	22
First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers	20.2	48
Grounds maintenance workers	18.6	225
First-line supervisors of retail sales workers	2.3	79
First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers	1.7	23
Cashiers (including gaming change persons and booth cashiers )	2.1	47
Retail salespersons	1.7	46
Miscellaneous agricultural workers	18.0	157
Fishers and related fishing workers	77.4	30
Logging workers	97.6	56
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers	21.0	144
Carpenters	6.6	86
Construction laborers	13.0	259
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators	10.6	39
Electricians	8.8	80
Painters, construction and maintenance	5.3	29
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters	5.6	37
Roofers	51.5	96
Structural iron and steel workers	23.6	15
Helpers, construction trades	15.8	11
Mining machine operators	11.0	9
First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers	15.1	46
Automotive service technicians and mechanics	6.1	58
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists	9.5	39
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers	8.5	40
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers	5.0	27
Maintenance and repairs workers, general	12.5	64
Electrical power-line installers and repairers	19.3	29
Telecommunications line installers and repairers	4.6	10
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers	2.9	26
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers	6.2	42
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers	58.9	70
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	26.0	966
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs	6.7	47
Industrial truck and tractor operators	6.8	44
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	5.8	113
Refuse and recyclable material collectors	44.3	37