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10 Most Dangerous Jobs People Actually Have
10. Skyscraper Window Cleaner
You need tremendous courage to be a skyscraper window glass cleaner. If you suffer from acrophobia,
forget this job. Glass cleaners are suspended on a narrow sill a few hundred feet above
street-level - not a task for the faint of heart.
9. Knife Throwing Target Girl
A target girl is a female assistant in circus performances such as knife throwing, archery
or sharpshooting. The assistant stands in front of a target board or is strapped to
a moving board while an impalement artist throws knives or shoots projectiles so as
to hit the board but miss the assistant. The potential for injury or death is part of the
visual thrill for the audience.
8. Construction Worker
Many accidents happen at construction sites. Workers often do their jobs under giant steel
beams or on the uneven surfaces high above the ground. The most common cause of death
among construction workers is falling. Explosions, electric shocks, loud noises, high and low
temperature, solvents, smoke, asbestos and incorrect lighting can also be dangerous to
construction workers.
7. Mine Clearer
De-mining, or mine clearance, is the process of removing land or sea mines from an area.
Since manual mine clearance is much more effective than any automated method, human workers are
still used to do the dangerous work of deactivating the world’s land mines. The cold harsh fact
of the job is if you mess it up you'll be in a million pieces
6. Lumberjack
Cutting logs may not seem that dangerous until you really think about it. The slopes of the
mountains on which most logging is done make lumberjack work quite dangerous. Carrying
heavy equipment up steep terrain with a slope of 70-80 degrees often leads to accidents,
especially in extreme weather. There is also a very real danger of being injured by a falling
tree. The profession is actually deemed the most dangerous in the USA because of its high
incident to employee ratio.
5. Lion Tamer
Taming lions sounds an interesting job, but it is actually very dangerous due to the obvious
risks of toying with the powerful instinctive carnivores. Being in control of these kings
of the jungle might be appealing to begin with but once you get up close with those
teeth its a different matter entirely, if they bite, you're getting hurt.
4. Helicopter Cable Worker
Helicopter cable workers are those surreal-looking workers who fix various cables and power lines
from a helicopter. The special conductive clothing these linemen wear allows them to
work on high-voltage transmission lines with their bare hands. A number of things could
go wrong from high winds to holes in the protective gear and it makes it very dangerous.
3. Fisherman
Working in the fishing industry is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Fishermen
have to work long hours every day, sometimes in darkness, without time for breaks. The
heavy equipment used to catch fish is rife with potential for accidents. And though GPS
technology helps to direct fishing boats, but in bad weather conditions and fatal accidents
still happen.
When you think of fishing, you think of having a nice break on the river bank waiting for
a bite. Well not in the professional world.
Working in a mine is undoubtedly a tough job. This job requires working outdoors, usually
underground, for long periods of time. Workers are often exposed to large amounts of silica
dust causing silicosis, which leads to inflammation and nodular lesions in the lungs. There are
also the much-covered instances in which miners are killed in mine collapses, blasts, fires
or landslides. The most famous being the 33 Chilean Miners who were stuck underground
for nearly 30 days, only being brought back up through a rescue shuttle pod.
1. Alligator Wrestler
Wrestling an alligator is a dangerous but exciting activity. To win an alligator-wrestling
competition, wrestlers must place their heads between the jaws of real alligators there
for a set period of time, an activity with obvious dangers. The alligators are obviously
not wild but trained to allow these things to happen. That doesn't mean things don't
go wrong from time to time and if you're caught by one of these dinosaurs you're lucky to
be alive
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