The most dangerous professions in the world

There are many special professions that can be classified as dangerous. Any work exposes one's health to risk of disability or death. But there are a number of specialties that are recognized as the most dangerous. We offer you 13 of the most dangerous professions, having become acquainted with which you may look at your work differently and change your attitude to it.

Miner

The statistics are amazing: every two million tons of minerals cost one human life. Explosions in mines occur frequently, but miners die not only during an emergency. Contact with coal dust, the highest carbon dioxide content underground, noise, vibrations, neuropsychic overstrain, hard physical work and serious work-related injuries. It is these factors that lead a person to intractable diseases and mortality.

Lifeguard and fireman

Natural disasters, man-made accidents, terrible fires and even everyday cases are those incidents where the Ministry of Emergency Situations come to the aid in the shortest possible time. In search of injured and wounded, firefighters must run into the infernal flames, where they act quickly and decisively. And all this happens in extreme circumstances, with heavy equipment behind you! A burning building is of particular danger, where at any moment the partitions of buildings collapse and gas equipment explodes. Contusions, injuries and burns of various degrees are constant companions of this profession. And stress can not be avoided. And they, as you know, can greatly undermine the nervous system.

Police Officer and Special Forces

As you know, police officers are called upon to maintain public order. Even the most ordinary employee is in a criminal environment every day and is at risk. Every day there are incidents in society that turn in the most unexpected way. Then the fighters of special units are connected. The fight against terrorism, the release of hostages, the detention of dangerous criminals, intelligence operations behind enemy lines - and this is not an exhaustive list of the main functionality of police officers and special units.

Electrician

The work of an electrician in everyday life is risky enough, let alone work at height, where you can’t get anywhere without insurance. An electrician can not only fall off the workplace at a height, but also suffer from electric shock. You can die from high-voltage lines at any time.

Sapper

Many believe that a sapper is a person who is engaged in the clearance of mines and unexploded ordnance. The phrase walks among the people: "Minesweeper is mistaken once." But this is not an ironic joke, but a 100% truth. Mining operations are very dangerous and any mistake will cost the sapper life. Not every daredevil will choose the profession of sapper as his main specialty.

Stuntman

The stuntman is one of the most interesting, but at the same time dangerous professions in the world. Of course, today most of the tricks can be done with the help of computer special effects, but stuntman services are still quite high paid and appreciated quite high. Modern action movies and commercials cannot do without beautiful scenes with stuntmen, where they very often receive injuries of varying severity. During the filming of scenes with stuntmen on the set, there is definitely no ambulance, but a reanemobile.

Driller

The work of a driller is directly related to a clear concentration of attention, especially during descent and lifting functionality. Intense noise during work leads to a large number of errors, and this in turn leads to injury.Drilling rigs have many moving units. The injuries of the driller profession are very high. In addition, strong vibration at the workplace negatively affects the entire body of the worker. Fires periodically flare up at the rigs.

Trucker and driver

Prolonged sitting in a sitting position for drivers and truckers causes terrible back pain. Workers in this profession are subject to frequent stresses, which leads to the appearance of cardiovascular diseases. Drivers are constantly at risk of an accident.

Lumberjack

The fall of a sawn tree is the most common cause of death in the lumberjack profession. But not only can you fall under a falling plant, but also under that which is rolling. It is almost impossible to dodge and escape from a rolling felled tree from a slope.

Fisherman

The most common causes of death among fishermen are falling overboard and tetanus disease. The infection gets into the wounds received during fishing. Lack of medicines and the inability to return to land on time leads to death. Mortality statistics among people working in this industry are sad: for every 100,000 there are 129 deaths.

Journalist

The risk is associated with the work of a journalist, but not of all its representatives, but only war correspondents. Working in hot spots is very dangerous. In Russia, they are known for cases of pressure on journalists trying to conduct independent political investigations. Journalists are subjected not only to threats and attacks, but also to cold-blooded killings. Freedom of speech today costs many journalists of life.

Pilot

Pilots are one of the romantic professions, but dangerous. Air travel has recently been considered the safest, but aircraft both crashed and continue to fall. And the psychological burden on the pilot for the life of passengers lies with personal responsibility.

Cosmonaut

The astronaut is not the most common profession, because getting there is quite difficult for medical reasons. In space programs during the existence of astronautics, 34 astronauts died. At first glance, the numbers are small, but it's from 430 people!