Number of on-the-job deaths suffered each year by police
officers:
6.8 per 100,000
Number of on-the-job deaths suffered each year by retail-sales
clerks:
6.9 per 100,000
Number of on-the-job deaths suffered each year by cabbies: 30 per
100,000
-Source: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (Vol. 11,
2001)