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Mining is less dangerous than fishing but more dangerous than policing

Michael Allan McCrae | November 14, 2011 | 10:40 am Europe 

Working as a mining machine operator is the fifth deadliest occupation in the U.S., just above policing but less dangerous than fishing or farming. In August the U.S. Bureau of Labor released a compilation of occupations with highest fatality rates....

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