Thanks for compiling the numbers.<p>18 &quot;work&quot;-related fatalities out of 546 &quot;workers&quot; represents a massive amount of risk over any widespread form of civilian employment. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fishing is the riskiest job these days, with an annual fatality rate of around 12 per 10000.<p>Even granting that safety has improved with experience and better engineering, I think it&#x27;s safe to say that being an astronaut is at least 10x more dangerous than the most dangerous civilian job.