10 Most Violent Jobs

[Jeff White]

Be advised this list encompasses the most violent jobs, i.e. those jobs that you are most likely to be involved in a violent encounter, not the most dangerous jobs where your chances of being injured or killed in an accident are high.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...149E9705673BD7C78625710F0037BDEB?OpenDocument

10 most violent jobs

02/08/2006

1. Police officers

2. Corrections officers

3. Cab drivers

4. Security guards

5. Bartenders

6. Custodians

7. Special ed teachers

8. Gas station workers

9. Junior high teachers

10. Convenience store workers

These are the jobs with the highest rates of workplace violence in 2001.

Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics

 

[HighVelocity]

Why isn't Soldier on that list.

edit: I think I answered my own question. that data was compiled pre Sept. 2001.

 

[buzz_knox]

I'm surprised psychiatric ward nurse/orderly isn't on the list. I suspect that because the violent encounters they engage in aren't reported as crimes, the statistics don't pick them up.

 

[lawson]

wow, i've been 7 out of 10 things on that list. never been a cop or a teacher.

but my ma teaches special ed at a junior high. should i be worried about her?

 

[Spiggy]

hmm... it fits under two categories... Maybe you should buy her a classroom shotgun...

er, back on track... Can anyone find more recent statistics?

 

[No_Brakes23]

Why isn't Soldier on that list.

edit: I think I answered my own question. that data was compiled pre Sept. 2001.

Because combat is not "workplace violence." And anyway, not all of our servicemembers have rounds coming downrange, most non-infantry or infantry support probably never even hear a shot fired in anger.

BTW, combat existed before 9-11. I distinctly remember receiving combat pay for a few months in '98-'99 for Operation [strike]Bill & Monica[/strike] Desert Fox.

 

[TallPine]

These are the jobs with the highest rates of workplace violence in 2001.

1. Police officers

Just an odd observation ... for police the entire jurisdiction is their "workplace"

Second odd observation: it is sometimes part of the police officers' job description to initiate violence

 

[c_yeager]

Notable absences include jobs in which "workplace violence" goes unreported. These are not necessarily the most violent jobs, but jobs with the most legally reported instances of violence, which is a very different thing. Soldiers for example experience violence on a regular basis, but it is unreportable as "workplace violence", proffessional athletes are in the same situation. There are probably numerous places in which violence simply isnt reported for reasons of workplace culture. For example healthcare personelle, particularly mental health proffesionals rarely report incidents of minor violence in the workplace through official channels.

 

[Hemicuda]

wow... 5 out of 10 for me... i had better get cracking if i am gonna try all 10 in my lifetime...

 

[Nightcrawler]

If Mad Ogre will permit me to link an image from his site...

They forgot one!

Being a cage fighter in The Octagon, of course!

 

[taliv]

i'm not sure this scans.

Be advised this list encompasses the most violent jobs, i.e. those jobs that you are most likely to be involved in a violent encounter, not the most dangerous jobs where your chances of being injured or killed in an accident are high.

it's a combination of those that i think would be useful. as stated above, i'd say stuff like pro football player or boxer would be the highest, at 100% chance of being involved in a violent encounter.

while Jeff excludes accidents here, what i'd like to know is what job you'd be most likely to be injured or killed in as a result of a violent encounter.

obviously, police have regular violent encounters, but i doubt they're the most likely to be injured or killed in violence, because they're trained and generally prepared (i.e. they get dispatched to the encounter, as opposed to being ambushed like a teacher might be)

 

[lebshiff21]

This seems to be only for the St. Louis area... no?

 

[Twycross]

Huh. I can see most of those making the list, but Junior High teachers? I didn't know the urchins had gotten so rowdy these days.

 

[Capital Punishment]

How the hell is being a custodian a violent job?

 

[Kodiaz]

That's nice please post the most Dangerous jobs. Police goes to about 8 I think maybe 9.

 

[Optical Serenity]

Haha, humorous to see all the anti-LEO folks come out of the woodworks here...

And the reason on the most dangerous list our profession goes all the way down is simple, we wear armor, get training, and carry guns If more people carried guns, and more businesses allowed it, same would occur across the board.

 

[f4t9r]

number 6 and number 9
I do not know about those choices

 

[Kodiaz]

I'm not anti Leo AT ALL. I just like to rib you guys because I see your job as another trade. So I bust your chops like if you were a smelly plumber or a prima donna electrician. Now if your offended because I consider your profession a blue collar one then I can only sit here and be labeled anti LEO.


Now please try not to shoot yourself in the leg with yo glock foty

Actually a gun wouldn't protect me from hi voltage power, flammable gases, explosive gases, toxic gases, pressurized vessels, hi temperature environments, etc. etc. etc. etc.

But I will say if all A/C men carried guns the customers would be a lot nicer.

 

[Ala Dan]

Hey Jeff My Friend-

add one too it, Firearms Salesman

 

[7.62x54r]

What nothing from the Govenmment.

 

[spaceCADETzoom]

Now please try not to shoot yourself in the leg with yo glock foty

Only one person on that list is trained enough for a glock foty...it's only for professionals. So, no, they that carry a glock foty cannot be blue collar. duh.

Haha, imagine a special ed junior high class with a LEO teaching us about gun safety (I also see dreadlocks). That's three jobs on the list right there! AHH! THE VIOLENCE!

"That was an 'AD'...now, hand me the rifle"

kids: "Put it down! AHHH!"

No wonder teachers are on that list I kid, I kid.

 

[taliv]

how bout the list of what the 10 most violent jobs SHOULD be?

1. politician
2. lawyer
3. credit card executive
4. health insurance executive
5. pimp
6. spammer
7. ...

 

[Dan the Man]

Here is some information on 'most dangerous jobs'. And Here is the link:http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0003.pdf.

Police does not make the top ten for fatality rate. Military fatality rate is for US only. Data is from 2004...

Top ten in fatality rate (deaths per 100,000 employed):

1. Logging workers
2. Airline pilots and flight engineers
3. Fishers
4. Structural iron and steel workers
5. Garbage collectors
6. Farmers/ranchers
7. Roofers
8. Electrical power line installers and repairers
9. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
10. Taxi drivers

Police officers are more likely to be killed in a transportation incident than the result of a 'violent act'. Roughly 60%/40% split.

Regards
--Dan

 

[Rob1035]

USPS employees have to be on one of these lists somewhere...

 

[c_yeager]

Huh. I can see most of those making the list, but Junior High teachers? I didn't know the urchins had gotten so rowdy these days.

Some of this probably has to do with reporting. THe nature of an junior high educators job is such that *any* instance of violence, regardless of how minor, is going to be reported.