A report on the Daily Beast today says that being a private security guard is a risky occupation.
The report looks at both injuries and deaths on the job. While, being a security guard is more deadly (8 deaths per 100,000 workers) than the Daily Beast’s number 2 occupation, logging (7 deaths per 100,000 workers), security guards have a much lower chance of being injured on the job. You can also imagine that there are probably many more security guards than loggers.
Security jobs are kind of strange. The hazards that they face are almost always invisible up until the point that a critical incident is in motion. These jobs are mundane 99.9% of the time, but that .1% is often deadly.
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