{"id":64,"date":"2006-06-27T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-06-27T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T18:22:10","slug":"1001-odds-of-death-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/1001-odds-of-death-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"100:1 Odds of death on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI don&#8217;t know about you, but I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/space\/06\/27\/shuttle.risk.ap\/index.html\">100:1 odds of death for an occupation<\/a> aren&#8217;t great. That&#8217;s what the most recent space shuttle crew has been informed of to quantify the risk they&#8217;re signing up to in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/main\/index.html\">next planned launch (STS-121)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nConsider other occupational statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay out of the forest: <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2003\/10\/13\/pf\/dangerousjobs\/?cnn=yes\">118 fatalities per 100,000 for timber cutters<\/a>\n<li>Stay off the street: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comebackalive.com\/df\/dngrjobs.htm\">20 percent of the 6588 fatal work injuries happened on the road<\/a>\n<li>Stay above ground: 23.5 deaths in mining for every 100,000 workers in 2002\n<li>Stay on dry land: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/2195847.stm\">103 in every 100,000 fishermen died while working<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They missed space shuttle crew where there have been 14 deaths out of 703 opportunities in 114 missions.<\/p>\n<p>\n<small>Technorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/space+shuttle\" rel=\"tag\"> Space Shuttle<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/jobs\"> Jobs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/death\"> Death<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think 100:1 odds of death for an occupation aren&#8217;t great. That&#8217;s what the most recent space shuttle crew has been informed of to quantify the risk they&#8217;re signing up to in the next planned launch (STS-121). Consider other occupational statistics: Stay out of the forest: 118 fatalities per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}