Find out what America's most dangerous and deadly jobs are

On any job, safety should be your top priority.

Whether operating heavy equipment, performing physically demanding and labor-intensive activities, or activities in which employees are frequently exposed to substances that are hazardous to health: in dangerous jobs, accidents at work occur again and again and anyone can get injured.

Or even die at work.

According to the website Visual Capitalist, there were nearly 5,500 deaths in the United States in 2022, making these listed occupations the most dangerous in the country. They are so dangerous that a worker dies from a workplace injury every 96 minutes.

The list includes occupations such as lumberjacks, roofers and construction workers, as well as fishermen and hunters, steelworkers, aviation engineers, pilots, van and truck drivers, street vendors, underground mining machine operators and overhead power line workers.

According to Forbes Magazine, workers' compensation laws in most parts of the country do not require employees to prove employer negligence to receive compensation for workplace injuries, which includes payments for lost wages if you have to take time off work and medical bills.

The list comes from the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as of December 2023 and is based on the number of fatal workplace accidents per 100,000 full-time employees.

Although most occupations of this type have fewer than 100 deaths per year, according to Forbes Magazine, roofing workers have more than a hundred deaths per year, compared to delivery drivers and truck drivers, who have more than a thousand deaths per year.