Transportation jobs: Commercial drivers and air pilots Transportation safety in the United States
a graph outlining relationship between number of hours driven , percent of commercial truck crashes related driver fatigue.
source: federal motor carrier safety administration
driver fatigue concern, particularly commercial drivers. hours of service regulations issued federal motor carrier safety administration (fmcsa) , govern working hours of operating commercial motor vehicle (cmv) in united states. relationship between number of hours driven , percent of commercial truck crashes related driver fatigue exponential relationship. (see graph.)
although accident rate per 100 million miles professional truckers low, high number of miles driven truck driver makes truck driving risky occupation. trucking transportation occupations accounted 1 quarter of work-related fatalities in 2015, more other u.s. job, according u.s. labor department’s bureau of labor statistics annual workplace fatality report. fatal injury rate in 2015 14.7 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in transportation , material moving occupations (which includes both truckers , air transportation workers.) lower rate workers in farming, fishing, , forestry occupations, high compared other occupation categories. report did not break out fatal injury rate per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers among aircraft pilots , flight engineers did note had high fatal injury rate compared workers. there 57 fatalities among aircraft pilots , flight engineers in 2015.
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