Roofing ranked sixth in the recently released list of the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America for 2002.

Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), this list reported that roofers had a fatality rate in 2002 of 37 per 100,000 workers.

Timber cutters headed the fatality list. Fourth on the list were structural steel workers who build skyscrapers and bridges; they died on the job at the rate of 58 per 100,000 in 2002.

Roofing was followed in seventh place by electrical power installers (32 deaths per 100,000 workers).

Construction laborers suffered 28 fatal injuries per 100,000 in 2002, putting them in ninth place on this unfortunate list.

One Top-10 surprise was the fifth-place finisher—driver-sales workers, which a BLS spokesperson explained included pizza deliverers, vending machine fillers, and so on. Traffic accidents contributed heavily to their high fatality rate of 38 per 100,000, but they also suffered from crime; nearly a quarter of their deaths were caused during robberies and assaults.