Study Finds Safest Blue-Collar Jobs

January 4, 2025

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Study Finds Safest Blue-Collar Jobs

Good Guys Injury Law analyzed workplace safety data across ten major industrial occupations to pinpoint the safest blue-collar jobs. The study found that paving and surfacing equipment operators are America’s safest blue-collar workers, showing zero incidents in most accident categories. Factors included fatal injuries, transportation accidents, falls, harmful substance exposure, and equipment-related incidents. Each category was normalized and weighted for balanced scoring.

Key findings:

Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators lead the rank of the safest blue-collar jobs with the highest safety score.
Sheet metal workers are reported to have zero nonfatal injuries, raking second to paving operators, primarily due to more falls, slips, and trips.
Operating engineers specializing in heavy equipment operations have a solid safety record with an incident rate of 7.9, securing their place in the top five.

The full research is available at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTLQD8Nk7GjEklvqoyu8mzu2HsSnwrJ-kK7wDfEZomBB-iijb-OFgW57Jiy7HHLoGYGuz0QmBpJYNXV/pubhtml?gid=1689151809&single=true

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