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Employee Safety



 

(“Logging in Perilous Work” Compensation and Working Conditions, Winter, 1998)

-Most Dangerous Occupation, 1992-1996: fishing

-Most Dangerous Occupation, 1997: logging

-Deaths per 1,000 workers - fishing, 1997: 1.2

-Deaths per 1,000 workers - logging, 1997: 1.3

-Deaths per 1,000 workers - all occupations, 1997: 0.05