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- New data out earlier this week shows the fatal injury rates among occupations for 2022.
- Logging workers, roofers, as well as fishing and hunting workers had the highest fatal injury rates.
- The rate for logging workers was 100.7 fatal injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.
It can be pretty dangerous to be a logging worker or roofer based on their extremely high fatal work injury rates among US occupations in 2022.
These rates are highlighted in a data release about the Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. The new data for 2022 came out earlier this week.
In 2022, logging workers had a fatal work injury rate of 100.7. That's per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers and was the highest rate among occupations. Roofers followed with a rate of 57.5.