The UN’sFood and Agriculture Organisation says a profession in mining is safer than fishing.
The agency says more people die in the fishing industry annually than the mining industry. The group estimates 24,000 people died every year out of about 15 million full-time marine fishing workers. A 2003 estimate by the United Nations' International Labour Organisation put the number of work-related deaths worldwide at two million a year.
The death rate is higher than the average rate for jobs considered the most dangerous in the world, including quarrying and coal mining.
Human error, negligence and incompetence are blamed to be the causes of 80% of accidents.
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