Police work is less dangerous than nursing work in terms of non-life-threatening injuries. Fishery workers, logging workers, and aircraft pilots had the highest death rates in 2010. The rate of workplace deaths in the US has decreased since 1991.
In the United States, police work is actually less dangerous than nursing work in terms of non-life-threatening injuries. Although a much higher percentage of police officers died on the job in 2010 than health care workers, nurses and residential care workers suffered non-fatal occupational injuries and illnesses at a higher rate than people who worked in protection of the police.
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The deadliest jobs in the United States in 2010 included fishery workers, with a death rate of about 116 workers per 100,000; logging workers, with a death rate of about 92 workers per 100,000; and aircraft pilots and flight engineers, who had a fatality rate of about 71 workers per 100,000.
The rate of workplace deaths in the United States was lower in 2010 than it had been since at least 1991. 4,547 workers died on the job in 2010, or more than 2,000 fewer deaths than in 1994.
Approximately one in 20 U.S. workers in the private transportation and warehousing industry sectors suffered a non-fatal work-related injury in 2010.
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