“The 2016 CDC study of approximately 40,000 suicides reported in the US in 2012 — the most recent year for which statistics are available — showed that the rate for agriculture workers is 84.5 per 100,000. The next occupation most at risk were construction, extraction, installation, maintenance and repair workers who had a suicide rate hovering around the 50 per 100,000 mark. Meanwhile, the suicide rate among American male veterans is 37 per 100,000, according to a 2016 study by the Veterans Affairs department.”
While I’m happy to read that about Veteran’s, I’m engaged to a retired construction worker - who farms! Those are the top two suicide groups.
Still not buying it...gonna read some more. I also have family in Norwalk who farm where this was supposedly researched. None of them have been/seem suicidal!
Would you post a link or cite the source of suicide by occupation data? I can’t find it in the National Vital Statistics Report.