Can you guess this most dangerous occupation?

[MegaWorks]

Prostitute?

 

[rahvin]

Underwater welder is the most dangerous job in the world and has been for decades, something about welding with explosive gas and oxygen strapped to your back. Although I can't see that there is demand for 10,000 of them so I don't think this is the job you are looking for.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: rahvin
Underwater welder is the most dangerous job in the world and has been for decades, something about welding with explosive gas and oxygen strapped to your back. Although I can't see that there is demand for 10,000 of them so I don't think this is the job you are looking for.

NOPE

 

[torpid]

That article does not mention injuries. If you define most dangerous and most likely to cause injury, maybe sports mascot wins. If you define it as most number of deaths, it loses.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: rahvin
Underwater welder is the most dangerous job in the world and has been for decades, something about welding with explosive gas and oxygen strapped to your back. Although I can't see that there is demand for 10,000 of them so I don't think this is the job you are looking for.

IIRC, underwater welding is done with electric arc welders.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: rahvin
Underwater welder is the most dangerous job in the world and has been for decades, something about welding with explosive gas and oxygen strapped to your back. Although I can't see that there is demand for 10,000 of them so I don't think this is the job you are looking for.

IIRC, underwater welding is done with electric arc welders.

That may very well be true, I thought both were possible, I was under the impression that deep water welding could only be done with gas based torches as the depth would preclude an arc welding setup working properly. I really don't know much about it other than some information I saw once that indicated the chance of being hurt or killed was about 10 times that of construction work in the US and had been the most dangerous job for years.

And Fritzo, the article you linked only deals with Fatalities. The timber industry may have the least safety measures and the lowest skilled workforce in existence resulting the highest fatality rate but that doesn't make it the most dangerous job. Injuries play a big role in making a job dangerous IMO. Also there aren't that many underwater welders, in fact there are probably so few of them that it can't even be considered on a per 100,000 basis that the article deals with.

So what was the answer?

 

[Chronoshock]

Fishermen!!

Formerly, the most dangerous job was electrical line repairman (the guy with the spiked shoes that would go up the electrical poles). This has changed due to modern safety innovations, making fishing the most dangerous job

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: rahvin

So what was the answer?

Sports mascot.