Chemical Engineers have dangerous field of work?

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<p>An uncle of a friend of mine used to be a chemical engineer…that is until he almost got himself blown up at a power plant and then went back to school to study something else…</p>

<p>Was this a very rare scenario or are the lives of chemical engineers generally at risk?</p>

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<p>I guess you could say that there’s some risk involved. After all, these are chemicals you’re dealing with. </p>

<p>On the other hand, there are risks involved in other fields too. For example, I wouldn’t call petroleum engineering (i.e. going onto offshore oil platforms around the world and drilling for oil) the safest job in the world. I wouldn’t say that hanging out in factories, as a lot of mechanical engineers do, is all that safe. I don’t know that being a doctor and hence being exposed to lots of myriad contagious diseases is particularly safe.</p>

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<p>Safety regs are pretty stringent… see OSHA. <a href=“http://www.osha.gov/[/url]”>http://www.osha.gov/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think chemical engineers have the highest death rate among all engineering fields and probably among most other jobs too due to explosions.</p>