Nine times out of ten, a personal injury claim will stem from your everyday workplace. Offices and businesses are often dangerous places if health and safety procedures aren’t strictly adhered to, but you can count yourself lucky that you don’t have to clock in and out of some of the more dangerous jobs in the world. Below are some of the jobs with the highest injury rates reported across the globe.
Ore and Mineral Miners
As we’ve seen in Cuba and most recently in Japan, miners are putting themselves at risk every time they go down the fateful elevator shaft. Although the extreme cases we’ve seen of miners getting trapped for days underground are rarethey are more common injuries that outweigh slips and trips in the office. Technology and science has pushed mining forward in terms of health and safety, but working for long periods in unstable conditions around explosives and dangerous gases always comes with an inherent risk of serious, and not uncommonly fatal, wounding.
Emergency Services
Those who dedicate themselves to helping each other in the service of Police, Fire, Ambulance and Coast Guard are risking their lives on a daily basis. It’s hard to say who puts themselves in the most danger. Fire fighters will battle deadly blazes and expose themselves to a myriad of harmful gases; police will be dealing with armed criminals and high speed chases, whilst both the paramedics and coast guard will be put in high pressure situations which can easily escalate out of control. It takes a special type of person to risk their own personal safety for people they’ve never met before.
Security Guards
Although you’ll find far less deaths in this line of work than in the previous two, you’d be likely to find more injuries. The very nature of a security guard is to put his or herself in the line of danger, whether it’s protecting premises from burglars and vandals or making sure that trouble makers aren’t allowed into a venue. Either way, they’re subjecting themselves to a lot of human dangers which will often manifest itself in anger and violence. Those with specialist roles like the protection of politicians and world leaders will literally be putting themselves in the line of fire.
Ore and Mineral Miners
As we’ve seen in Cuba and most recently in Japan, miners are putting themselves at risk every time they go down the fateful elevator shaft. Although the extreme cases we’ve seen of miners getting trapped for days underground are rarethey are more common injuries that outweigh slips and trips in the office. Technology and science has pushed mining forward in terms of health and safety, but working for long periods in unstable conditions around explosives and dangerous gases always comes with an inherent risk of serious, and not uncommonly fatal, wounding.
Emergency Services
Those who dedicate themselves to helping each other in the service of Police, Fire, Ambulance and Coast Guard are risking their lives on a daily basis. It’s hard to say who puts themselves in the most danger. Fire fighters will battle deadly blazes and expose themselves to a myriad of harmful gases; police will be dealing with armed criminals and high speed chases, whilst both the paramedics and coast guard will be put in high pressure situations which can easily escalate out of control. It takes a special type of person to risk their own personal safety for people they’ve never met before.
Security Guards
Although you’ll find far less deaths in this line of work than in the previous two, you’d be likely to find more injuries. The very nature of a security guard is to put his or herself in the line of danger, whether it’s protecting premises from burglars and vandals or making sure that trouble makers aren’t allowed into a venue. Either way, they’re subjecting themselves to a lot of human dangers which will often manifest itself in anger and violence. Those with specialist roles like the protection of politicians and world leaders will literally be putting themselves in the line of fire.
Byline: This article has been written by Thompsons Scotland, accident claim solicitors & injury lawyers who offer specialist legal advice for injury compensation claims.
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