The most dangerous jobs in U.S.

If you think your job is killing you, the federal government has new statistics to show that you're probably overreacting.

The Department of Labor has released a new report that shows the number of workplace deaths in the United States declined to a historic low in 2007.

The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 in 2007. That's the fewest number of recorded work-related deaths since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started keeping statistics in 1992. The bureau reported 5,840 deaths reported in 2006.

The report also lists the most dangerous jobs.

No. 1 is fishermen. (That could be why "Deadliest Catch" is such a big hit on TV.) For fishermen, the rate is 111.8 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers.

Logging workers is No. 2 with 86.4 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers.

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers is No. 3 with 66.7 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers.

No. 4 is structural iron and steel workers with 45.5 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers.

Construction continued to have the most deaths of any private sector industry, with 1,178 in 2007.

Although the total number of deaths is down, there were a few categories that saw an increase in fatalities, according to the Labor Department.

Fatal falls on the job rose to a record 835 in 2007, the bureau reports.

Workplace homicides also increased 13 percent, to 610, in 2007, according to the report.

Click on the link below for more on the report:

U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao Applauds Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Report Showing Decline in Worker Fatalities

To read the full report and see where your industry falls, you can download the entire report in PDF format at this site: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf