U.S. States with the Most Workplace Fatalities

Oregon and Washington have a high concentration of people living in urban areas. Nobody gets up in Seattle-Tacoma every morning and heads outside to start cutting wood inside from their air-conditioned skidder. Logging's not what it used to be....

Union membership affects these figures as well: advocating for safer working conditions, breaks that keep workers rested, etc.

somehow people can even inject politics into this quiz. You people place way too much importance on it.

I was riding on the planter behind the tractor when my brother ran over a stob and it slashed the large back tire. They are filled with fluid and the scalding fluid poured out on me. Thankfully it wasn't serious. My cousin tried to jump on the back of a tractor and fell under the disk, but he wasn't hurt too badly. My nephew was driving our tractor down the road and the disk began swinging behind him. He lost control and the tractor went up a tree and fell over backward. Luckily he was able to jump off first. My brothers escaped serious injury when a field road bridge over a bayou fell in when they tried to drive over it with a loaded grain truck. Accidents are part of farm life - usually they're caused by carelessness when people are in a hurry and trying to take shortcuts, but sometimes they just happen and no one's at fault.

Two accidents stand out in my memory. My mom's best friend was helping her husband try to start their cranky Oliver tractor. He asked her to check to see if there was gas in the tank. She couldn't see so she struck a match to better see...luckily her hair soon grew back. One of my teachers was trying to take a sample of bull semen for research - bulls don't always appreciate "manual extraction" - and somehow he got semen in his eye. It is caustic and he had to go to the doctor. His eye was eventually okay, but he was the object of many jokes forever after. I knew another man who was using his four wheeler to herd cattle into a pen. The bull resisted so he bumped him with the four-wheeler. The bull turned around, put his head under the front, and flipped the four-wheeler completely over. The man was in the hospital with broken ribs, a punctured lung, and other injuries. My son went to the doctor with a cut hand when my husband ran over a piece of metal while bushhogging the pasture.

I took a very long way of saying that farming is a very dangerous occupation, mostly because of all the machinery or large animals involved. We once had to take an employee to the hospital while hauling hay - we didn't know there was a bumblebee nest in the barn until we started stacking hay and one flew out and stung him. He hadn't known he was allergic to them but it turned out to be very serious. My husband has been injured when jacks fell while working on machinery, he's been hurt when cattle penned him against a panel, he's been kicked many times by animals, he cut his hand on tin while working on a barn roof, the list goes on and on. It's the same for every farm family I know.

Kal may be extremely obnoxious, but he isn't wrong here. It's very well-established fact that men are much more likely to die in workplace fatalities than are women.

Facts that counter your feminist narrative aren't "misogynistic". Unless you think reality is a bigot, which given the rate at which charges of prejudice are thrown around these days, could very well be your actual belief.