Hey did you go to work today? This week? Congratulations you aren't one of the
stats on this list. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics recorded 5250 fatal work
injuries in the United States in 2018 that's a rate of 3.6 fatal injuries for
every 100,000 full-time workers every state has some dangerous jobs every year
every state has some on-the-job death there's no escaping it that's just how
the world is. The trick is, how to lower the number of deaths you have at work
there are several things that states cities and the country use to make the
workplace as safe as possible safety equipment laws regulations education
they don't stop everything some states catch far less than the rest
of the country right off the bat I'll tell you Texas in California had the
highest number of absolute workplace deaths in 2018 they also had far more
workers than anyone else on the list so this list is ranked per capita like most
statistics are this should be a fun one here are the ten states with the highest
worker death rate in the country we got to start with number 10 Louisiana
Louisiana is starting to show up on more and more of these videos of suck
corruption poverty crime the Pelican state better pull its act together or
they're gonna push Mississippi and Arkansas out of the top spots on the
list of suck Louisiana averages a hundred and eleven workplace deaths
every year that's five point eight three deaths per every hundred thousand
workers and if any of you see someone in the comment section asking something
along the line of how does point eight three of a person get killed please take
a moment and explain how math works to them I can't catch em all there's far
too many people asking things like that on my videos the deadliest job in
Louisiana is working in a sawmill funny how that works spinning blades made of
steel or killing people weird never saw that one coming number
nine Oklahoma you gotta look out for a lot of things that will kill you in
Oklahoma tornado floods bit by a copperhead being shot by a rancher for
trying to make his sheep your girlfriend and going to work in the oil and gas
industry those things all happen in Oklahoma the land of the red man has 93
workplace deaths per year on average that's five point eight eight deaths per
every 100,000 workers the good news is when it comes
to workers rights they ranked 25th kind of middle the pack we learned that on
another video we did a couple weeks back the deadliest occupation in Oklahoma is
production and support of oil and the gas industry number eight Arkansas
here's another state that's been around the bottom of the barrel and a lot of
stats lately the fact that they're number eight on this list instead of one
or two should be viewed as a win as far as the health of the workers in Arkansas
ghost I found one stat that was pretty good
they're the third best when it comes to high blood pressure for their workers so
when they do their physicals their blood pressure's in decent condition
cholesterol is a nightmare and so is their you know so is their lungs a lot
of smoking going on there but the high blood pressure thing that's a win and
here's where they start to lose Arkansas has 71 workplace deaths per year on
average they don't have that many people and they don't have that many people
working for that matter they average five point nine nine deaths for every
100,000 workers the deadliest occupation poultry processing I didn't even want to
know how they're getting killed in poultry processing I'm a big fan of
buffalo wings and I don't want to be thinking about that every time I take a
bite number seven Mississippi ah our old
friend the Magnolia state Mississippi I say old friend because we talk about
them a lot here it's like we've grown close but that's what happens when you
suck in everything but education if work isn't killing you in Mississippi
something else will they have the lowest life expectancy in the nation at 74
years the best would be Hawaii at eighty 1.2 followed by California at 80 point
nine when you're talking averages that's a big jump on average Mississippi has
six point one eight deaths per year for every 100,000 residents and they
average about 70 workplace deaths per year the deadliest occupation poultry
again no wonder KFC starts running out of stuff every time it's hurricane
season number six South Dakota South Dakota is not a bad state I mean unless
you've been killed at work than I'm sure sort of sucks when you're in South
Dakota there's always the possibility of freezing to death being trampled by
bison they're dying in an auto accident make sure you have the insurance paid up
when it comes to workers rights they aren't bad they have jobs and they're
moving in the right direction when it comes to growing a tech industry oddly
enough they have a lot of college students with a lot of student loan debt
that are staying in the state because the low cost a living you also run the
risk deine while working in South Dakota on
average South Dakota has 27 workplace deaths per year I know that number
sounds low but keep in mind the state has less than 1 million residents
they're actually ranked 47th in the number of residents out of 50 states so
yeah not a lot of people there they actually have 6.46 deaths per 100,000
workers every year the deadliest occupation frozen food production like
chicken what the hell number 5 West Virginia West Virginia has always been
bad in this category sadly West Virginia's coal mining coal mining is
extremely dangerous I imagine the only reason they're not number 1 or 2 on this
list is because the coal industry is sort of fading away the US coal
consumption is projected to fall to 691 million tons in 2018 that's a 4 percent
decline from 2017 they expect consumption to decline another 8 percent
in 2019 so there's not a lot of jobs not a lot of people working in coal anymore
that's why they're at number 5 West Virginia has 56 workplace fatalities per
year on average the entire state has less than two million people and they
have a bunch of people not working so that number is cut up there on average
the mountain State has six point six five deaths per 100,000 workers the
deadliest occupation in West Virginia is you guessed it coal mining number four
Montana Montana's the fourth largest state in area and eighth least populous
of all the 50 states the western half of Montana is mountain ranges and the rest
is sort of flat prospectors arrived in Montana looking for gold and they found
copper and silver as well they settled Montana and by the end of the 19th
century there was a five square mile hole in the ground in Butte that was
producing more than 2 million pounds of copper a year that was a quarter of the
world's supply at the time they're still pulling natural resources out of the
earth and Big Sky Country which helps land them at the number four spot on the
most dangerous States to work in that might not be the case in the coming
years financial services and business service companies have found a home in
Montana along with a lot of other things like data rooms and you know digital
asset management companies they're kind of moving the Billings area currently
they have 7.8 1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year in Montana on average
they lose 36 workers a year and the deadliest occupation in Montana is a
for my cousin's ex-wife and natural resources
number three Alaska the amount of workers that Alaska loses every year is
legendary it's a hard life in Alaska Alaska has a bunch of jobs that are more
dangerous here than any other place in the country
logging workers fishing related workers aircraft pilots and flight engineers
roofers structural iron and steel workers waste collection electric power
line installers and repairman drivers sales workers truck drivers farmers and
ranchers construction laborers and the most dangerous job in the state of
Alaska is waste collection it's bad enough you're like emptying trash or
pumping out one of those portable toilets at a construction site add the
fact to get I keep looking over your shoulder so you're not trampled by a
moose or mauled by a bear good times in Alaska on average they lose 30 workers a
year in Alaska now keep in mind it's one of the least populated states they
average 9.25 deaths per every 100,000 workers in Alaska number two
North Dakota North Dakota is a lot like South Dakota just a little colder and a
lot more dangerous a lot of that danger has to do with the
mining and natural resource extraction shale oil field jobs which come and go
with the price of oil has added a new wrinkle in the North Dakota workers
danger scale at least for the last decade or so they've also had an
increase in workmen's comp lawyers oddly enough imagine that this place has 11.11
deaths per 100,000 workers on average every year they averaged 46 workplace
deaths per year in North Dakota the deadliest occupation you guessed it
natural resources and number one Wyoming Wyoming is a lot like Montana just
closer to the wildlife that awaits you in Utah totally kidding totally boring
in Utah Wyoming has some of the same issues that North Dakota South Dakota
Montana have just at a higher rate in 2017 they're ranked fourth most
dangerous state to work in and here they are number one Wyoming has 12 point 1 4
deaths per hundred thousand workers they have 33 workplace deaths per year now
keep in mind the entire state has less than 600,000 residents and they're
ranked 50th in population there's not a lot of people here and definitely not a
lot of workers they're still losing 33 on ever
year your odds of not coming home after your shift are highest in Wyoming now
I'll give them one thing they have gotten better over the last few years
the thing is the other states have gotten a little bit more better than
them if more better was a word it would fit there perfectly the deadliest job in
Wyoming is believe it or not the u.s. Park Service apparently those guys are
having some rough times it's some wild land there so that one kind of doesn't
shock me that it still sucks all right so that is the top ten most dangerous
states to have a job hope you guys got some more information out of it this was
really interesting I did a little too much reading on this one and I went down
that you know Google rabbit hole and just got way too into this one anyway I
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