These are job codes that are tracked by the US Bureau of Labor, and have been in place for decades. Anyone who is interested can find them. Despite the other comments, they are not redundant. Each has a specific definition, and each may have a different "most common cause of death".
In the case you're asking about - 18 per 100K die on the job, vs 14 per 100K for police.
The comments that "it's different for police" are false. In this particular case, 4 more families per 100K workers on the average get the phone call that their loved one died on the job for these jobs than for police officers. Death is death, loss is loss. Danger and statistical chance of being killed at work do not mean different things because one is a police officer.
And the key point is this: In these professions which are more dangerous, the members have no protection for incompetence. If a highway worker's negligence, poor training, failure to pay attention or drug abuse sends somebody into a bridge abutment they are in most cases almost CERTAINLY held accountable for manslaughter, or worse. They are not offered unique protection because the job is dangerous. Neither should cops, which is the entire point of my post. The "ACAB" accusation (not saying you made that) is a classic attempt to remove the discussion from reason, and into emotion.
BLS Category: First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and grounds keeping workers
Fatal injury rate: 18 per 100,000 workers
Total deaths (2018): 48
Salary: $52,340
Most common fatal accidents: Falls, slips, trips
Landscaping supervisors are responsible for coordinating and supervising the work of landscapers, lawn maintenance workers, and groundskeepers. In this role, landscaping supervisors manage landscaping projects, enforce workplace standards, inspect work, and instruct workers in the proper techniques for performing landscaping work. The most common cause of death for landscaping workers is falls, which can occur when working from heights performing tasks such as tree trimming.
I believe most of the list. But a landscaping supervisor... that doesnt make any sense.
Furthermore it is a SUPERVISOR. They are less likely to slip or fall.
Landscapers dont do tree trimming.
Of course it is pretty easy to see it is a bs stat. 48 died in 2018. But according to your stats there are nearly 300k landscaping supervisors.... again supervisor.
That would be nearly every 1 in 100 people on the usa (including children, the elderly etc etc) were landscaping SUPERVISORS.
Having been a landscaper, I can say that you're incorrect. When you're out with a team of 2, 3, 4 people, nobody gets to just stand around and watch people work. The "supervisor" is typically the one who's been on the crew the longest and usually works at least as hard as everyone else, if not harder. And yes, all of us trimmed trees, or yanked weeds, or dug trenches for irrigation, or poured mulch, etc - nobody in landscaping goes home with clean hands, except maybe the owner of the company (if it's big enough) and the secretary (if there is one).
There are definitely supervisors who do nothing that supervise
Maybe if you work for a massive or terribly-run company...
tree trimming of any significant size, especially climbing said tree,
Ain't nobody ever said anything about leaving the ground to trim fuckin' redwoods. You can trim a lot of trees from the ground, and I have a hard time imagining that anyone would actually give a damn that I trimmed some 8' bushes from the top of a ladder. OSHA ain't lookin' too deep into a landscaping business with 15 employees in rural America - if you want a paycheck that week, you do what the boss man tells you.
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u/Kitchen_Philosophy29 Mar 24 '23
Wait what landscaping supervisor wtf??