You're right even though being an Oil Field Worker is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Frank's Ho's in west Philly have a better odd of surviving each day than yall do.
It isn't like it was when I started 40 years ago. Now, with some serious safety programs, improved equipment, etc., being a rig hand doesn't even make the top ten dangerous jobs. You're far more at risk working a crab boat in the Bering Sea, being a roofer, or a farmer, than we are. Especially now, when the industry has just suffered a contraction on the drilling end, and there are plenty of really good drilling people out there.
It gets a lot safer when you work with good people.
Texas has a shortage, but they aren't paying like they did up north, and you'd almost better take your house with you if you go.
Franks Hos are subject to a lot of employment related exposures we aren't--between all of that, I'd bet the general population of Hos has a much shorter overall life expectancy. We have to pass drug screening, too.