The 27 jobs that are most damaging to your health

Some jobs intrinsically have more health risks than others. A nurse working in a hospital is more likely to catch an infectious disease than a lawyer working in an office, for example. To rank the most unhealthy jobs in America, we used data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a US Department of Labor database full of detailed information on occupations. In order to analyze jobs by their impact on workers' health, we took O*NET measures of six health risks in each of the 974 occu...