USA's 10 most DANGEROUS jobs

#AMPtv got the word that the American workplace is less dangerous than it was last year, but at these 10 jobs every day is a gamble.

Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 121.2

Median wage: $30,220

Forty fishermen lost their lives last year, according to the Labor Department's annual report on workplace fatalities.
But things used to be much worse: "Conditions were so bad, the loss of life and vessels was so great that getting insurance was starting to be a major problem," said Leslie Hughes, who founded the North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners' Association Vessel Safety Program, which trains fishermen in safety skills such as fire prevention, damage control and cold water survival.
The training has helped, but so have big changes to the fishing quota system. Instead of each crew working around the clock in all sorts of weather to catch as many fish as they can before a fleet-wide cap is reached, boats get assigned individual quotas they can fill at anytime within the season.
"Under the old system, they had to get out as soon as they could and fish as quickly as they could," said Hughes. "They can get out of the weather now."





Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 102.4

Median wage: $37,360

Falling tree limbs and dangerous equipment, like chainsaws, have long made logging one of the most hazardous trades.
"You look up and see a hanging branch, no big deal. But it can fall and kill you," said Eric Johnson, a former logger and now editor of "The Northern Logger."
Last year, there were 64 deaths, according to the Labor Department.
The most common fatalities occur when loggers work steep, slippery slopes. Huge trunks can roll swiftly downhill, crushing workers in their wake.
New equipment has made things safer, said Johnson. Chainsaw cuts caused many deaths in the past, for example, but now most cutting is done from inside the cab of a logging rig with a mechanical, arm that reaches out to saw the tree trunks.


Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 57

Median wage: $118,070

The most dangerous skies for pilots are in Alaska -- where many of the country's 72 fatalities occurred last year.
More than 10,000 professional pilots work in Alaska, often ferrying cargo and passengers to isolated towns or dropping hunters or fishermen into remote areas.
Many fly older planes and are inexperienced and unfamiliar with the state's challenging terrain and weather conditions, said Will Johnson, owner of Yute Air Taxi, a charter service operated out of Fairbanks and Anchorage.
"They come here trying to build time for careers in the Lower 48," he said. However, while building that experience, they might find themselves in a patch of thick clouds and accidentally fly straight into a mountain slope, he said.
New electronic systems that provide better information about weather, terrain and air traffic have improved safety. And cameras have been set up all over the state so pilots can better see the conditions they're heading into.


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