There ya go... Great post, and worth repeating.
There is SOME truth in it == I would expect a higher rate of disability in coal country, in the Alaskan fishing industry, in the patch, loggers of course, mill work/green chain... and so on. Suburbia doesn't have anything nearly as dangerous as what country folk do as a part of life. Pretty much every job I have ever had was 'dangerous'.
I feel like such a piker. I have only worked 5 jobs that were on the 'ten most dangerous' list at the time I worked them.
Farming is probably the worst. I know a guy who got his arm wrapped up in a PTO shaft, two miles from his house, back before cell phones. He tied his upper arm off with a bootlace, tightened it with a screwdriver, and amputated what was left of his arm with his jack knife. Then he walked to his pickup at the edge of the field, drove to the house, and called help. He's an extreme case, perhaps, but he didn't write a book or get a movie made about it. He has my respect.
Seems city folks only end up in situations like that playing, and then people make a big fuss over it.
