What are the chances of being killed at work?

What are the chances of being killed at work?

Michael Largo (Author, "Final Exits") gives expert video advice on: Are employers at a high risk of being killed by their employees?; What are the deadliest occupations?; Which occupations have a lower life-expectancy? and more...

The chances of being killed at work are better than it was 1 year ago. When they first began doing statistics to see why people were dying on the job, it was actually in 1913 when there were only 38 million people in the workforce. Those days, at least 87-90 people went to work, didn't come home. Nowadays, there are three times as many people in the workforce, over 130 million and only 22 check in and don't check out. The causes of this are improvements in safety. Unfortunately, a lot of time safety isn't addressed until a number of fatalities take place. It's kind of like the street corner. Everyone knows it's dangerous and a red light doesn't get put there until a number of fatalities occur and the same thing occurs in the workplace. So safety is related to the number of accidents and the number of fatalities. So it is getting better because there are many organizations that are monitoring these statistics probably more than any other form of death from any other causes, workplace deaths are very accurately reported and monitored.