6. Mining Machine Operator
5. Refuse Collectors
4. Roofers
3. Airplane Pilots (bush pilots, air taxi operators, small commercial flyers)
2. Fishermen
1. Logging Workers

So California - there's the driver of the trash truck who never khas to get out as he perates a mechanical arm from inside his air conditioned cab. The arm extends, picks up my trash bin, upends it into the opened hopper and then sits it back on the ground as the hydraulics close up the truck and compress the trash... the whole process is automated. Even at the land fill the heavy equipment operators are safely protected inside their air conditioned cabs. I must be missing something, or its a very different situation everyplace else to be rated so dangerous.

... (at the side of the roadway), pick up refuse bins, trash cans, loose larger pieces of trash (furniture, boxes ... ), toss them into the back of a truck with an hydraulic arm that compresses the trash, hop onto the platform and move on.

Here, i can (and do) see it as a difficult and dangerous job.

I live in a rural area on the outskirts of a small town and our little local owned trash company switched to the automated pick up system over a decade ago because it was faster and cheaper in the long run. They only pick up the tall bins supplied by the company, nothing else, no loose refuge or big items, but you can make up to 3 free trips to their dump site per month if you want to drop off other stuff.

... I live in an urban/ suburban area. I agree, it would be faster, cheaper .... and safer

But I did find this at another link, a very old link from 1999.

http://waste360.com/mag/waste_garbage_collection_rated

Averaging 90 deaths annually per 100,000 workers, collection falls behind fishing, with 178 deaths, and timber cutting, with 156. The high number of deaths can be attributed partly to impatient drivers, who try to pass stopped garbage collection vehicles and end up hitting collectors. This makes waste handling a riskier occupation than airplane pilot, which averages 88 per 100,000 workers, and taxicab driver, which averages 32 deaths.

Picking up a heavy can (its done manually here) throwing it into the back, and repeating the process hundreds of times a day.

Where I live if a can is extreemly heavy they can put it on a lift abd dump it in the truck easily, but that is slow, and most cans are thrown into the truck manually still.

aren't they always 'putting their life on the line' against all those criminals constantly shooting at them.

Looks like it's mainly people working in areas that corporations want to deregulate.

Guess its gotten safer in my old age.

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And they resent it. Or is it resemble?

been 43 presidents.

4 have been killed office. Almost 1 in 10.