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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:20:44 AM EDT
Just wondered. We had two people killed at work in the last month. 
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:21:22 AM EDT
[#1]
Only if I get a papercut.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:21:58 AM EDT
[#2]
Waldo,
What do you do for a living? |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:22:19 AM EDT
[#3]
Hold on I'm reloading.....
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:22:43 AM EDT
[#4]
KILLER ROBOTS!! 
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:22:58 AM EDT
[#5]
I used to be a carpenter's helper. Everybody on the crew had shot themselves or somebody else with a nailgun, cut themselves, and fallen off a building at one point or another. I wasn't there long enough to do any of those things.
Now I am an engineer and the only real danger in my current job is a heart attack from being too sedentary |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:23:10 AM EDT
[#6]
More electricians die on the job every year than cops or firemen.
I used to work on corona treaters, and the factories that used them fully expected me to work on them as much as possible while they were operating. That was very dangerous. Now I build and test industrial computers - 24 VDC is one hell of a lot safer than 30kVAC. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:23:24 AM EDT
[#7]
Mine is. I've got plenty of scars, burns, and close calls to map out my career history.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:24:15 AM EDT
[#8]
How many of them are murdered? |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:24:24 AM EDT
[#9]
Number or percentage? |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:25:16 AM EDT
[#10]
If you call sitting in front of a computer all day dangerous, then yes.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:26:36 AM EDT
[#11]
mine is deadly. with all the hail and farewells, birthdays, retirements, unit picnics you're in dire danger of a massive coronary within a year!
that and the deadly infected papercut or being struck by monitor blindness... |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:29:26 AM EDT
[#12]
My job isn't dangerous, but the commute to get here and back home is very dangerous.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:32:39 AM EDT
[#13]
Yep, one was an electrician and the other a millwright. I work automated systems/robotics, big ugly ones that make you look like a grease spot on the floor if you screw up. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:32:52 AM EDT
[#14]
I voted for #1 and #3
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:34:14 AM EDT
[#15]
I'm as safe as a baby in it's mothers arms.
If the mother is an alchoholic, crackhead, psyco meth head driving 120 the wrong way down a one way street, at night with the lights off....In Bagdad, with a Bush/Chaney sticker on the bumper. Seriously, I'm pretty safe now. As long as I don't crash and burn. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:35:09 AM EDT
[#16]
Are we supposed to guess what your occupation is? [edited: sorry, I scrolled down] The most dangerous job I've held is construction, but that's not really all that dangerous. I've done commercial fishing but only 2 24-hour halibut openers in good weather. Didn't do it long enough to point where it became dangerous. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:35:30 AM EDT
[#17]
It can be, but generally is not.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:35:49 AM EDT
[#18]
Im a part time conveince store clerk haha!
Anyway I would like to see some stats. When I was an EMT I saw more of us get shot than cops or firefighters get seriously injured. That's not counting sprained my ankle jumping over the fence while chasing the thug type injuries. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:35:57 AM EDT
[#19]
Im fine as long as my takeoffs = my landings.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:36:38 AM EDT
[#20]
Over 1836 killed in 2 years and many thousands hurt.
 
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:36:44 AM EDT
[#21]
Honestly, a lot more computer programmers die locally than police do.
I think that has more to do with a case of the dumbass than the job description though.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:37:50 AM EDT
[#22]
Yeah, cause we all know death by murder is way worse than death by frying..................  Serious question, how many Leo's are murdered? On duty, and not counting suicides and auto accidents. Percentages probably make the best comparisons. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:38:47 AM EDT
[#23]
It all depends upon your point of view. More dangerous than some, less than others.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:39:54 AM EDT
[#24]
Extremely.
<<<<<<<<<<<< gigolo |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:39:57 AM EDT
[#25]
Unless some button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho just snaps, and then stalks from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers, then I should be fine.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:40:08 AM EDT
[#26]
Only if you count the noxious smell coming from the shitty diapers.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:42:03 AM EDT
[#27]
More people are killed in my line of work than in any other.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:42:27 AM EDT
[#28]
I handle explosives every day....by the TON. At his time I coordinate different lots of propllents and ignition systems and boosters in the Airbag manufacturing industry. Not as dangerous as when I used to MAKE the propellants!!! Oh but the PAYYYYYYYY.........I miss propellant manufacturing!!!! Very dangerous job.....VERY dangerous but the days went quick and the pay was great.
Sigh...welcome to the world of outsourcing......
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:42:48 AM EDT
[#29]
normally being in the IT field i'd have to say no, but last year i had one tech shot and killed in his car at a red light and another held at gun point and robbed while working on a system at a hotel.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:44:07 AM EDT
[#30]
In the true spirit of corporate America, all the tradesman were called on the carpet and threatened with termination if we get killed.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:44:38 AM EDT
[#31]
Some weeks I run a very high risk of dying…
…dying of boredom! ANdy |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:48:13 AM EDT
[#32]
Commercial fishing? |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:48:15 AM EDT
[#33]
I'm old and my kids are grown. I'd like an EOD job. I'm kind of nuts anyway.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:50:12 AM EDT
[#34]
Truck driving. There are jobs that are more dangerous, but for sheer numbers of fatalities, truck driving is tops. ETA not much commercial fishing in my state
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:50:42 AM EDT
[#35]
Yes
It's not the voltage that kills you but the current! |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:52:05 AM EDT
[#36]
Yes. I regularly enter confined spaces, work with dangerous chemicals, and work alone in a secluded area.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:52:46 AM EDT
[#37]
Now that I told the banks I am not going into Detroit anymore...I think the danger has gone down 75%
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:54:24 AM EDT
[#38]
Injury-wise, yes. Liquid spills on the floor, deep fat fryer burns, meat grinders, and of course...the dreaded mandolin slicer.
That slicer is probably the most common way to cut your finger(s) off in the kitchen. But death-wise? Hardly. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 11:58:47 AM EDT
[#39]
falling off a ladder is the way I could get hurt.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:00:28 PM EDT
[#40]
Other than being on the 13th floor of my building, no risks at all...
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:12:34 PM EDT
[#41]
:P I used to work maintenance in a food processing plant. I've seen firsthand what a 600 plus qt mixer can do to a human body. It's not pretty. |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:14:19 PM EDT
[#42]
Technically, my job involves creating an emergency, then counting on you can fix it.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:18:00 PM EDT
[#43]
And my job is to pick up the pieces when you can't fix your 'emergency' and suffer from sudden deceleration trauma.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:20:56 PM EDT
[#44]
I'm safe as long as I wear sunscreen
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:22:35 PM EDT
[#45]
Check my pockets, I usually have enough cash on me to buy you a beer if you have to scrape me up.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:24:58 PM EDT
[#46]
You decide-------
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:29:50 PM EDT
[#47]
Tool and Die maker, I have to lay inside 600 ton stamping pressed while I repair dies. IRonically, that's not where most of us have scary moments. That happens when handling dies with a crane. I had all sorts of scary shit happen when flipping dies over-broken swivel hooks, eye-bolts etc.
About 4 years ago I quit working to go to lunch and walked away from a press. While I was washing my hands I heard a press rolling over and thought "Hmm... someone's working thru lunch.." The press I was working in had a failure and it blew the safety block out that I had put in there-and smashed a bunch of my tools. The company I work for now are very safety concious, which is nice. They had a guy get killed by a newb about 10 years ago. He was training a new hire and got his head popped while guiding the strip thru the die. Dave |
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:33:58 PM EDT
[#48]
Not really, although I was almost killed in a job-related boating accident a few years ago. No guns were lost however but some tools and equipment were.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:34:19 PM EDT
[#49]
Oilfield. I'd say yes. There's no counting all the machines out here that could kill you if you get in the way. But because of that, all the companies out here are very safety-conscious.
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Posted: 8/10/2005 12:38:38 PM EDT
[#50]
Ah. That makes sense. Probably a per capita thing - I've always heard fishing is the most dangerous job, but there are a lot more truck drivers than fishermen, so it makes sense. And for the record, I NEVER cut a truck driver off, and I get out of their way on a downhill grade.
That's part of the reason I was confused.
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