Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe...
by bumby on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:59AM
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You are conflating serious injury with fatalities.
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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe...
by lazide on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:28AM
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That sheet is fatalities. It’s literally in the URL and at the top of the page. See column ‘Total fatal injuries’.
Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe...
by bumby on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:08PM
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Right. But the post you are refuting is talking about "serious injuries" not "fatalities".
Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe...
by lazide on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:16PM
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they were claiming numbers an order of magnitude less than fatalities.
Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe...
by bumby on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:31PM
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Per hundred workers. Your link is in absolute units of fatalities, their claim is a rate. At the very least, you need the number of workers (which is also available in BLS data) to refute their claim.
The data shows roughly 454k workers in the welders, solderers, and brazers occupation series. With their claim of 3.5 severe injuries per 100 worker-careers, that's about 16k severe injuries. If you assume an average career is about 25 years, that's about 636 severe injuries per year, compared to the 48 fatalities per year. So it's an order of magnitude higher (which I think is the direction most people would expect).