What is the most dangerous and difficult job in the world?

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FireGodGoesSeeknFire · Accepted Answer

These days its probably Ice Road Tuckers. The goal is to deliver as much as possible to the North Shore in Alaska in the dozen weeks or less the road is even theoretically passable.

For year's when I was growing up it was Alaskan King Crab fisherman. Average of at least one death pet boat per summer. But they instituted a quota system in 2005 that meant the boats could no longer keep as much as they could haul for as long as the sea permits.

As you can see speed combined with harsh weather is a killer.

Honorable mention though goes to some of the Eastern Coast of Australia coal miners. Apparently it's so desolate that suicide was the leading cause of missed work. It's also strip mining do you don't even have the beauty of nature to soothe you. Just the endless pit you've spent all day for months helping to carve out of Mother Earth.

Chazmatazz269 · Accepted Answer

You’d have to establish parameters to determine such a thing unequivocally. “The Deadliest Catch” got its name from the inordinately high death toll. Mining has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the US alone. Lumberjack is still extremely dangerous. There are some new careers that rank too. People have to climb radio and cell towers to change the beacons at the top. Electricians have to scale windmills to work on them and linemen work with voltages that can literally vaporize them daily. Too few people want to admit how difficult and dangerous police work can be. Fighting fires is no treat.
There are lots of people putting their lives and livelihoods on the line daily to provide us with things we take entirely for granted.

dustybiker · Accepted Answer

There are a lot of them. I would rank electrical linesmen as near the top. Especially those who work dangling from a helicopter.
Four men were working on an underground street job that I drove by. Found out in the news later that night an electrical arc took them all out. 😔

DeeDeeDeVour · Accepted Answer

My cousin is a Commercial Deep Ocean Salvage Diver.

According to him, there are many dangerous perils he and his crew face on the ocean floor and even on the deck of vessels on the ocean surface, especially during severe weather conditions.

4ngelic · Answer

navy seal, special forces, mine deactivator/installer, warzone reporter, police officer in shitty areas, bounty hunter, cia agent, prostitutes in places like tijuana, drug dealer, gang member, mafia dude, drug trafficker muscle dudes, terrorist, soldier in africa or middle east, skyscraper window cleaner, people who work on making nukes/bombs or deal with nuclear or radioactive waste, circus people who work with tigers and lions, exotic animal seller, highway staff, panhandler

NathanDavis · Answer

mining anything in... third world regions (as in no care for human rights) for first world companies sulfur miners will die around age 50

SnowedIn · Answer

Mining; oil rig work; military in almost all forms; Navy aircraft carrier operations; anything diving or undersea related. Deep sea fishing. There's lots of others. A lot of jobs have incredible amounts of risk and danger.

Googlemyahoo · Answer

Saturation divers.  There was an incident where one diver didn’t close the hatch properly. All the guys in the diving chamber were instantly forced through the tiny opening essentially liquified.

Anonymous · Answer

Crane operator. I wouldn't care if I got killed in a war, but I would hate it if I killed other people by mistake if the crane messed up and ended up in jail.

If I got killed in a war, I would not care because my life is over with. But if I hurt other people by mistake I have to live the rest of my life in jail.

I don't care if I get killed, but I don't want others to get hurt.

Poliker · Answer

The guy that sets up electricity on those tall, brown poles has a dangerous job.

Anonymous · Answer

- Fishing and Hunting Workers. Fatal injury rate: 132.1 per 100,000 workers
- Logging Workers
- Roofers
- Construction Workers
- Aircraft pilots and Flight Engineers
- Refuse Waste and Recyclable Material Collectors
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Delivery and Truck Drivers

ShadezMcgee · Answer

Bell divers, cell and radio tower repairman/technician, coal miner, fire fighter, deep sea fishermen, oil rig workers, sailor, logger and tree cutters

MementoMori777 · Answer

Deep sea fishing, coal mining, basically any position at an oil rig, fire fighting, police, swat, any job that requires combat training I'd say, there's many to choose from

Red_Arrow · Answer

Military combatant. Being in a war guarantees many will die, and many die just in training exercises.

Agape93 · Answer

Right now, being a Russian conscript. Nearly guaranteed to die within the week.

chicosuave · Answer

oil jobs especially working on those machines. Most men get crushed in killed in those huge machines.

Redstang88 · Answer

Commercial fishing and forestry are still some of the most risky professions out there. Commercial deep sea diving and bush pilots are up there too

AmeerX · Answer

I think it would be mining, Frontline soldier, and minesweepers

Fleet7635 · Answer

I definitely think underwater welding and anything having to do with biological weapons or diseases

motownplayer2000 · Answer

Sex worker. However, I don’t really consider that a job. More like a public service, since I wouldn’t really ever pay for sex straight up like that.

BJP21 · Answer

Volcanologist/Geologist, Oil rig Operator, Snake Milker, Tow Truck Driver, Highway worker (Cal Trans)

Noodle_fan · Answer

delivery person

loveslongnails · Answer

Hmmm... raising a family in a country with a fascist regime.

douride2 · Answer

The most dangerous job has to be in the logging industry.

slatyb · Answer

Russian soldier in Ukraine.

Seaspirit670 · Answer

Construction workers, Aircraft pilots, Fishing and Hunting Workers, Logging Workers, Roofers

elizamichale1 · Answer

My job  I work as a stripper n prostitute

SteveSmith1985 · Answer

Deep-sea crab fishing apparently

coachTanthony · Answer

A venom milker is up there for sure.

Nazgol · Answer

Police officer

exitseven · Answer

It is lumber jack or commercial fisherman.

DJB72 · Answer

Wolverine's proctologist...

andreasderjuengere · Answer

A shark dentist perhaps.

tfan1 · Answer

A crab fisherman on deadliest catch.

CloudMassacre · Answer

Underwater welding or logging

Andres77 · Answer

Deep sea welder. Astronaut.

LiamJHayden · Answer

USAF Pararescue

Teriyaki70 · Answer

Loggers, roofers, pilot

CubaPirate · Answer

Deep Sea Fisherman

Anonymous · Answer

Wolverine's proctologist.

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

Air craft carrier

Preeti161101 · Answer

Coal mining ⛏️

Katyalov · Answer

Being a human

BLP11520 · Answer

Police work

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