{"id":4453,"date":"2013-01-25T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:51:47","slug":"whats-the-deadliest-job-police-officer-fire-fighter-fisherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2013\/01\/25\/whats-the-deadliest-job-police-officer-fire-fighter-fisherman\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Deadliest Job? Police Officer? Fire Fighter? Fisherman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR\u2019s Planet Money created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2013\/01\/08\/168897140\/the-deadliest-jobs-in-america-in-one-graphic\">a compelling graphic<\/a> to illustrate how different jobs compare in terms of the risk of getting killed on the clock.\u00a0 While police and fire fighters may come to mind as being the deadliest occupations, fishermen actually have the highest risk per 100,000 workers of losing their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing is inherently a dangerous profession, but there are many ways to make it safer that deserve attention. One is catch share management, which ends the race to fish and relieves some of the pressure on fishermen to be on the water in the worst weather because they\u2019re afraid the fishing season will be cut off. Read more about the impact catch shares have had on safety <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/09\/20\/fishing-continues-to-top-deadliest-job-list\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4454\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/01\/gr-pm-fatalities-616.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4454\" alt=\"Bureau of Labor Statistics Deadliest Jobs\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/01\/gr-pm-fatalities-616.gif\" width=\"616\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bureau Of Labor Statistics<br \/>Credit: Jess Jiang and Lam Thuy Vo \/NPR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/2013\/01\/gr-pm-fatalities-616.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NPR\u2019s Planet Money created a compelling graphic to illustrate how different jobs compare in terms of the risk of getting killed on the clock.  While police and fire fighters may come to mind as being the deadliest occupations, fishermen actually have the highest risk per 100,000 workers of losing their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing is inherently a dangerous profession, but there are many ways to make it safer that deserve attention. One is catch share management, which ends the race to fish and relieves some of the pressure on fishermen to be on the water in the worst weather because they\u2019re afraid the fishing season will be cut off. Read more about the impact catch shares have had on safety here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2013\/01\/25\/whats-the-deadliest-job-police-officer-fire-fighter-fisherman\/\">Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[472,5087,55583,5130,42636,5206],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-catch-shares","tag-deadliest-jobs","tag-domestic","tag-fishing-safety","tag-marine-safety","tag-safety"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What\u2019s the Deadliest Job? Police Officer? Fire Fighter? 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