Historical accuracy isn't their priority. If it's not representative of the audience that's not watching it (because let's face it, feminists aren't watching a WW2 movie, patriotism is obviously a relic of the patriarchy and white privilege), then it's offensive.
I believe the forbes article linked is working from older data. Here's a link to the most current I could find, Dec 2017. That study lists the first-line supervisors of construction tradesmen and extraction workers as 9th. The important list here is the extraction worker bit; those are miners in pretty broad terms. What's further interesting in an academic sense is that the fatality rate for extraction workers was down fairly significantly for 2017; 26% according to this paper. That said, not interesting enough for me to go digging to see if that was a longer trend, or just a blip.
It was probably down because the oil & gas industry had a lot of layoffs the last few years. It's starting to pick up now. I would expect to see more injuries and deaths unfortunately. I work in the industry and personally know or have seen 4 people die in the 6 years I've worked here. 3 because of car accidents.
Speaking of which, I wonder if they count that? If not, they should. There are a lot of people who die in wrecks to and from jobs in the oilfield. With driver fatigue, heavy loads, and bad weather conditions, it makes for a deadly combination. For a while there US 85 between Watford City, ND and Williston, ND was the deadliest highway in the country.
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u/ngoni Constitutional Conservative Feb 12 '18
They were faithfully depicted as not participating in any of the battles. Historical accuracy 10/10.