May 20, 2015 — Those who have watched The Perfect Storm will not likely be surprised to hear what the deadliest job in America is.
Bloomberg Business analyzed U.S. occupations based on the rate of on-the job fatalities and found that fishermen and women— “fishers” — made the top of the list, with 131.52 fatalities per 100,000.
Using data released in April 2015 from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bloomberg looked at numbers for the last seven years through 2013 to track how many people die at work. Loggers and aircraft pilots took the second and third-deadliest spots on the list, while business and financial operation jobs were ranked as least deadly.