By Les Christie @CNNMoney September 11, 2014: 1:03 PM ET
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Deaths per 100,000 workers: 91.3
Median wage: $33,630
Even though most trees are now safely cut down using big harvesting machines, not all of them can be downed that way.
When loggers use handheld power saws, they're much more vulnerable to injury from falling tree limbs and dangerous equipment.
Those daily threats make logging the most dangerous job in the country, with 91.3 deaths per 100,000 workers in 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, it's an improvement from the year before -- when there was 128 deaths per 100,000 workers.
Jerry Bonagofsky, CEO and safety director for the Washington Contract Loggers Association, credits the improvements to the adoption of safer equipment and procedures.
