{"id":110838,"date":"2026-08-07T19:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/?post_type=insights&#038;p=110838"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T08:07:14","slug":"most-dangerous-jobs-in-america","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/ko\/insights\/most-dangerous-jobs-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 Most Dangerous Jobs in America: 2026 Data Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dklaw-section dklaw-hero dklaw-hero__blog align wp-block-dklaw-hero-blog has-background has-primary-beige-background-color\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-default is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-heading-tag has-secondary-blue-color has-primary-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1bf94ea6f69642e86e36011f6d682c16\">Insights &#8211; 15 most dangerous jobs in america<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">The 15 Most Dangerous Jobs in America: 2026 Data Study<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">From logging to trucking, our 2026 index breaks down the 20 most dangerous jobs in America and why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-section-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2026-data-report-insights-1-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cAt a glance\u201d infographic showing key 2026 workplace fatality statistics for logging, truck driving, transportation incidents, and California compared with the U.S.\" class=\"wp-image-110884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-section-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2026-data-report-insights-1-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-section-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2026-data-report-insights-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-section-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2026-data-report-insights-1-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-section-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2026-data-report-insights-1-1536x885.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-section-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2026-data-report-insights-1-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hero-section-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2026-data-report-insights-1.jpg 1844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-section dklaw-toc alignfull wp-block-dklaw-toc\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__blocks align wp-block-dklaw-toc-blocks\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask which job in America is the most dangerous, and you get two different correct answers, depending on which question you actually meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you meant &#8220;which worker is most likely to die this year,&#8221; the answer is a logging worker. The fatal injury rate in logging was 110.4 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in 2024, roughly 33 times the rate across all American occupations.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you meant &#8220;where do most workplace deaths actually happen,&#8221; the answer is behind the wheel of a truck. Driver\/sales workers and truck drivers lost 950 people that year.<sup>2<\/sup> Logging lost 51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We built an index that reports both, and flags the occupations where the underlying numbers are too thin to rank with confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-arrow-list\">\n<li>Logging workers have the highest fatal injury rate in the United States at 110.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, followed by fishing and hunting workers at 88.8 and roofers at 48.7 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024 data).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Truck drivers die in far greater numbers than any other occupation. The 950 deaths among driver\/sales workers and truck drivers in 2024 exceed the combined total of the six highest-rate occupations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transportation incidents caused 38.2% of all fatal work injuries in America, more than falls, workplace violence, and toxic exposure counted separately.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three occupations commonly ranked in the top ten had fewer than 20 deaths in 2024, which makes their rates unstable year to year. Underground mining machine operators went from a rate of 13.9 to 35.6, an increase of six deaths.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California recorded 419 fatal work injuries in 2024 at a rate of 2.4 per 100,000, below the national rate of 3.3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California workers&#8217; compensation is generally the exclusive remedy against an employer, so a civil claim after a workplace death usually depends on a negligent third party being involved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The 2026 Occupational Risk Index<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each occupation gets a score from 0 to 100 combining how likely a worker is to die and how many workers actually died. Full scoring detail is in the next section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Score<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Occupation<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Deaths per 100,000 FTE<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Confidence<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1<\/td><td>79.9<\/td><td>Logging workers<\/td><td>110.4<\/td><td>51<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>68.2<\/td><td>Fishing and hunting workers<\/td><td>88.8<\/td><td>24<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>60.2<\/td><td>Roofers<\/td><td>48.7<\/td><td>104<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4<\/td><td>56.1<\/td><td>Driver\/sales workers and truck drivers<\/td><td>25.7<\/td><td>950<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>49.2<\/td><td>Aircraft pilots and flight engineers<\/td><td>36.7<\/td><td>73<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>44.9<\/td><td>Refuse and recyclable material collectors<\/td><td>37.4<\/td><td>36<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td>40.4<\/td><td>Grounds maintenance workers<\/td><td>20.9<\/td><td>239<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td>38.9<\/td><td>Helpers, construction trades<\/td><td>35.8<\/td><td>18<\/td><td>Low<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9<\/td><td>38.8<\/td><td>Structural iron and steel workers<\/td><td>37.8<\/td><td>14<\/td><td>Low<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>36.0<\/td><td>Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers<\/td><td>19.4<\/td><td>175<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11<\/td><td>35.9<\/td><td>Underground mining machine operators<\/td><td>35.6<\/td><td>12<\/td><td>Low<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12<\/td><td>34.3<\/td><td>Construction laborers<\/td><td>15.8<\/td><td>334<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13<\/td><td>34.2<\/td><td>Miscellaneous agricultural workers<\/td><td>19.0<\/td><td>147<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14<\/td><td>20.0<\/td><td>First-line supervisors of construction trades<\/td><td>12.8<\/td><td>105<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15<\/td><td>13.7<\/td><td>First-line supervisors of mechanics and installers<\/td><td>13.1<\/td><td>38<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16<\/td><td>12.7<\/td><td>Maintenance and repair workers, general<\/td><td>10.8<\/td><td>76<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17<\/td><td>12.1<\/td><td>Construction equipment operators<\/td><td>11.7<\/td><td>49<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18<\/td><td>11.2<\/td><td>Electrical power-line installers and repairers<\/td><td>13.8<\/td><td>21<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19<\/td><td>10.9<\/td><td>First-line supervisors of landscaping and groundskeeping<\/td><td>12.3<\/td><td>33<\/td><td>High<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20<\/td><td>3.4<\/td><td>Telecommunications line installers and repairers<\/td><td>11.5<\/td><td>15<\/td><td>Low<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for calendar year 2024, released February 19, 2026.[^1] [^2]<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How we scored it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The score weights the fatal injury rate at 70% and the annual death count at 30%. Both components are log-scaled before weighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Log scaling matters more than it sounds. Rates in this set run from 110.4 down to 10.8. On a straight linear scale, logging&#8217;s number is so far above everything else that roofers, truck drivers, and refuse collectors all compress into roughly the same sliver near the bottom, which tells you nothing. Log scaling preserves the gaps between the occupations you actually want to compare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 70\/30 split reflects which question carries more weight for a person deciding whether their job is dangerous. Rate answers that question directly. Count answers a different and still important one, which is where workplace death in America is concentrated, and it keeps trucking visible instead of burying it at rank fourteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What we left out, and why.<\/strong> The index uses no nonfatal injury data. That was deliberate. Nonfatal injuries come from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, which excludes the self-employed, workers on farms with ten or fewer employees, private household workers, volunteers, and federal government workers.<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Logging, commercial fishing, and agriculture run heavily on self-employment and small operations. The survey misses injuries in precisely the jobs at the top of this list. Research comparing it against state workers&#8217; compensation records found it captured roughly 70% of claims.<sup>4<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building a danger ranking on data that undercounts the most dangerous work would produce a cleaner-looking table and a worse answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The confidence flag.<\/strong> Any occupation with fewer than 20 deaths in the data year is marked Low. With numbers that small, a handful of additional deaths moves the rate enormously, and ranking those occupations against each other implies a precision the data does not support. More on this below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What the scores are not.<\/strong> The 0-to-100 range is normalized within this 20-occupation set, so a score of 40 does not mean a job is 40% as dangerous as anything in particular. The numbers rank and space these occupations against one another, nothing more. BLS publishes its own guidance on the limits of reading fatality rates as risk measures.<sup>5<\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why does logging rank first when truck drivers die more often?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because rate and count measure different things, and the difference lives in the denominator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Logging employs a small workforce. Fifty-one deaths would barely register against trucking&#8217;s 950, but spread across a workforce that small, they produce the highest occupational fatality rate in the country. An individual logger faces worse odds than an individual in anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trucking inverts that. A rate of 25.7 per 100,000 is nowhere near logging&#8217;s; applied to a workforce that size, it produces close to a thousand funerals a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One detail from the 2024 data is worth sitting with. Logging deaths fell, from 52 in 2023 to 51 in 2024. The rate went up anyway, from 98.9 to 110.4, because the workforce shrank faster than the death toll did.<sup>1<\/sup> <sup>6<\/sup> A rate can climb while fewer people die, which is reason enough to read both columns.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What actually kills workers in America&#8217;s deadliest jobs?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traffic, more than anything else. Transportation incidents accounted for 38.2% of all fatal work injuries in 2024, or 1,937 deaths.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Falls, slips, and trips caused 844. Violence caused 733, including 470 homicides. Exposure to harmful substances or environments caused 687, and unintentional drug and alcohol overdoses made up 410 of those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within that transportation category, 1,146 deaths came from roadway incidents involving motorized land vehicles. Another 369 workers were struck by vehicles as pedestrians, up 19% from 310 the year before.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mental image of these jobs features the signature hazard. Chainsaws for loggers, heights for roofers, machinery for farm workers. The data keeps pointing somewhere less cinematic: a worker in a vehicle, or standing next to one, on a public road. That distinction shapes what legal options a family has, which the last section covers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age matters too. Workers 65 and older died at a rate of 9.1 per 100,000 in 2024, nearly triple the all-worker rate.<sup>7<\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does California compare?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California recorded 419 fatal work injuries in 2024, down 4.6% from 439 in 2023, at a rate of 2.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.<sup>8<\/sup> That is below the national rate of 3.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state&#8217;s mix of causes runs differently from the country&#8217;s. Transportation incidents caused 114 California workplace deaths, about 27% of the state total against 38.2% nationally. Transportation and material moving occupations still lost the most workers at 110, including 44 heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers. Hispanic or Latino workers made up 51% of California&#8217;s workplace fatalities.<sup>8<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California also regulates hazards federal rules leave alone, which matters for the roofers, farm workers, and grounds crews high on this list. Cal\/OSHA has enforced an outdoor heat illness prevention standard since 2006, requiring drinking water, shade once temperatures pass 80 degrees, and added procedures at 95 and above. An indoor standard took effect in July 2024 at 82 degrees.<sup>9<\/sup> Federal OSHA has no equivalent heat standard.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can a family sue after a workplace death in California?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usually not against the employer. California workers&#8217; compensation is the exclusive remedy against an employer for a work injury or death, which means the family collects statutory benefits rather than filing a negligence lawsuit.<sup>10<\/sup> The exceptions are narrow: a willful physical assault by the employer, fraudulent concealment of an injury, a defective product the employer manufactured and sold, the knowing removal of a guard from a power press, and an employer that illegally carried no workers&#8217; compensation coverage at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those benefits are capped. Death benefits for dependents run $250,000 for one total dependent, $290,000 for two, and $320,000 for three or more, plus up to $10,000 in burial expenses.<sup>11<\/sup> No showing of fault is required to collect them, which is the tradeoff the system was built on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A separate civil claim becomes possible when someone other than the employer caused the harm. The negligent driver who hit a road crew. The trucking company whose driver crossed a center line. The property owner who concealed a hazard from a contractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That covers a lot of ground in the jobs on this list. Transportation incidents cause more workplace deaths than any other category, which means a large share of the deaths behind this table involve a vehicle and a driver who was not the victim&#8217;s employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the potential defendant is a company that hired the worker&#8217;s employer as a contractor, California law starts from the presumption that the hiring company is not liable. That line of cases begins with <em>Privette v. Superior Court<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two openings exist. A hirer that retained control over the work, and exercised that control in a way that contributed to the injury, can be liable. So can a landowner that knew of a concealed hazard the contractor could not have discovered and failed to warn.<sup>12<\/sup> Later decisions narrowed both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two points families are often surprised by. If a third-party claim succeeds, the workers&#8217; compensation insurer that paid benefits holds a lien against the recovery and is repaid before the family receives the balance.<sup>13<\/sup> And the deadlines differ, since a wrongful death lawsuit generally must be filed within two years of the death while a workers&#8217; compensation death benefit claim runs on its own clock.<sup>14<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One change took effect this year. Between 2022 and 2025, California allowed an estate to recover a decedent&#8217;s own pre-death pain and suffering in a survival action. That provision expired on January 1, 2026, so survival actions filed now are limited to economic damages.<sup>15<\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the most dangerous job in America?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Logging, measured by fatality rate. Logging workers died at 110.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in 2024, the highest rate BLS recorded for any occupation. Measured by total deaths, truck driving is deadlier, with 950 fatalities among driver\/sales workers and truck drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are these rankings from OSHA?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. The fatality data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, specifically the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. OSHA enforces workplace safety rules and does not publish an occupational danger ranking. Articles attributing these rates to OSHA are misattributing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How many people die at work in the United States each year?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were 5,070 fatal work injuries in 2024, down 4.0% from 5,283 in 2023. That works out to one worker death every 104 minutes. The overall rate of 3.3 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers fell for the second consecutive year.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is farming the deadliest job in America?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, though agricultural work ranks high. Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers had a fatality rate of 19.4 per 100,000 in 2024, and miscellaneous agricultural workers 19.0. Both run about six times the national average and about one-sixth of logging&#8217;s rate. A claim circulating online that one in fifty agricultural workers dies on the job would imply a rate near 2,000 per 100,000, roughly a hundred times the real figure.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If a workplace death involved someone other than the employer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most workplace injury claims in California run through workers&#8217; compensation, with its own rules, deadlines, and benefit limits. Where a third party caused the harm, a separate civil claim may exist alongside it, and the two interact in ways that affect what a family keeps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If someone in your family was killed or catastrophically hurt on the job and a vehicle, a property owner, a contractor, or a piece of equipment was involved, it is worth having someone look at whether a third-party claim exists. DK Law handles<a href=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/practice-areas\/wrongful-death\/\"> wrongful death<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/catastrophic-injury\/\"> catastrophic injury<\/a> claims across California, gathering evidence and consulting experts to advocate for injured people and their families. Consultations are free, and we will tell you if we think you do not have a case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related reading:<a href=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/the-fine-print\/how-survival-action-differs-from-wrongful-death-lawsuits-in-california\/\"> <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/the-fine-print\/how-survival-action-differs-from-wrongful-death-lawsuits-in-california\/\">how a survival action differs from a wrongful death lawsuit in California<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/the-fine-print\/does-workers-comp-pay-for-lost-wages-california\/\"> whether workers&#8217; compensation pays for lost wages<\/a>, and our data study on<a href=\"https:\/\/dklaw.com\/insights\/car-accident-statistics-by-age-and-gender\/\"> car accident statistics by age and gender<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><em>Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Attorney Advertising. DK Law, Costa Mesa, CA<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-toc__block align wp-block-dklaw-toc-block\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources and notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rate and number of fatal work injuries in selected occupations, 2024. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries interactive charts. All detailed occupation rates and death counts in the index table come from this source.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries\/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm\"> https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries\/rate-and-number-of-fatal-work-injuries-in-selected-occupations.htm<\/a> \u21a9 \u21a9<sup>2<\/sup> \u21a9<sup>3<\/sup> \u21a9<sup>4<\/sup> \u21a9<sup>5<\/sup><sup><br><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2024. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics news release USDL-26-0230, released February 19, 2026. Source of national totals, the 3.3 per 100,000 rate, and all event and exposure figures.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cfoi.nr0.htm\"> https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cfoi.nr0.htm<\/a> \u21a9 \u21a9<sup>2<\/sup> \u21a9<sup>3<\/sup> \u21a9<sup>4<\/sup> \u21a9<sup>5<\/sup><sup><br><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BLS OSH scope and coverage. The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses excludes fatalities, the self-employed, workers on farms with ten or fewer employees, private household workers, volunteers, and federal government workers.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/iif\/additional-resources\/about-soii-case-and-demographics-characteristics.htm\"> https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/iif\/additional-resources\/about-soii-case-and-demographics-characteristics.htm<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wuellner SE, Adams DA, Bonauto DK. Unreported workers&#8217; compensation claims to the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: establishment factors. <em>American Journal of Industrial Medicine<\/em>, 2016;59(4):274-289.<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26792563\/\"> https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26792563\/<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using fatality rates to evaluate risk and dangerous jobs. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/iif\/overview\/dangerous-jobs.htm\"> https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/iif\/overview\/dangerous-jobs.htm<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civilian occupations with high fatal work injury rates, 2023. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Source of all 2023 comparison figures, including the 2023 police officer rate.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries\/civilian-occupations-with-high-fatal-work-injury-rates.htm\"> https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries\/civilian-occupations-with-high-fatal-work-injury-rates.htm<\/a> \u21a9 \u21a9<sup>2<\/sup> \u21a9<sup>3<\/sup><sup><br><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rate of fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers by age group. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2020-2024.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries\/rate-of-fatal-work-injuries-per-100000-fte-by-age.htm\"> https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries\/rate-of-fatal-work-injuries-per-100000-fte-by-age.htm<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fatal Work Injuries in California, 2024. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Western Information Office, release 26-583-SAN, April 1, 2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/regions\/west\/news-release\/fatalworkinjuries_california.htm\"> https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/regions\/west\/news-release\/fatalworkinjuries_california.htm<\/a> \u21a9 \u21a9<sup>2<\/sup><sup><br><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cal\/OSHA heat illness prevention. California Department of Industrial Relations. Outdoor standard at Title 8 CCR section 3395; indoor standard at Title 8 CCR section 3396, effective July 23, 2024.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/dosh\/heatillnessinfo.html\"> https:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/dosh\/heatillnessinfo.html<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California Labor Code section 3602. Workers&#8217; compensation as the sole and exclusive remedy against an employer, and the statutory exceptions.<a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/california\/code-lab\/division-4\/part-1\/chapter-3\/section-3602\/\"> https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/california\/code-lab\/division-4\/part-1\/chapter-3\/section-3602\/<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Workers&#8217; compensation benefits, death benefits. California Division of Workers&#8217; Compensation.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/dwc\/workerscompensationbenefits.htm\"> https:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/dwc\/workerscompensationbenefits.htm<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Privette v. Superior Court<\/em> (1993) 5 Cal.4th 689; <em>Hooker v. Department of Transportation<\/em> (2002) 27 Cal.4th 198 (retained control); <em>Kinsman v. Unocal Corp.<\/em> (2005) 37 Cal.4th 659 (concealed hazard); narrowed in <em>Sandoval v. Qualcomm Inc.<\/em> (2021) 12 Cal.5th 256 and <em>Gonzalez v. Mathis<\/em> (2021) 12 Cal.5th 29. \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California Labor Code sections 3852 and 3856. Employer and insurer reimbursement rights and the order of payment from a third-party recovery.<a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/california\/code-lab\/division-4\/part-1\/chapter-5\/section-3856\/\"> https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/california\/code-lab\/division-4\/part-1\/chapter-5\/section-3856\/<\/a> \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 (two-year limitations period). The workers&#8217; compensation death benefit deadline is set separately by Labor Code section 5406. \u21a9<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California Code of Civil Procedure section 377.34. The allowance for a decedent&#8217;s pre-death pain and suffering in survival actions applied to cases filed between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2025 and expired January 1, 2026. \u21a9<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"dklaw-author align wp-block-dklaw-author has-text-color has-primary-black-color has-background has-tertiary-blue-background-color\"><div class=\"dklaw-author__block\"><div class=\"dklaw-author__image\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/dklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/daniel-kim.jpg);\"><\/div><div><p class=\"dklaw-author__block-about\">About the Author<\/p><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-heading-serif\">Daniel Kim<\/h4><h6><\/h6><p>He is the founder of DK Law and a nationally recognized car accident lawyer. Daniel Kim earned his B.S. from the University of Maryland and J.D. from Chapman University. 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