What is the most dangerous occupation?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What is the most dangerous occupation?
Plane crashes make the news because they’re so rare. We don’t hear about car crashes unless they involve the likes of Princess Diana or Tiger Woods. Why? Because they happen all the time. Most forms of public transit are quite safe these days. Likely the safest form of public transit—although generally not thought of as such—are elevators. They obviously conform to the definition—they transport the public. And they’re loaded with safety mechanisms. So one of the safest occupations must be the elevator attendant, right? That profession would have been a downright death wish prior to the safety features invented by the Otis Elevator Co. But today, if an elevator were to plummet to the ground, it’s likely because the entire building is going down with it. Elevator attendants were already rare prior to COVID, but the virus undoubtedly ended most of those remaining positions. Combining all these ideas, we may be able to statistically categorize the elevator attendant as the most dangerous occupation on the planet. Imagine a building collapse, killing one of the 10 elevator attendants remaining in the world. A 10% mortality rate sounds extremely dangerous to me.