Mail carrier, meter reader, farmer, newspaper reporter are most endangered jobs in U.S.

Mail carrier is the most endangered job in the U.S., and farmer and journalist are not far behind, according to CareerCast's list of the most endangered jobs in 2015. Mail carrier is a profession expected to lose 28 percent of its workforce by 2022. Meter reader and farmer are expected to lose 19 percent of workers by 2022, newspaper reporter 13 percent, jeweler 10 percent, logger 9 percent, flight attendant 7 percent, drill-press operator and insurance underwriter 6 percent and seamstress/tailor 4 percent. (Fortune graphic)

"Every year, CareerCast takes a look at the jobs that are vanishing, and this year, the list clearly shows the steady march of technology, as professions have been shedding jobs at a fast clip," Christina Austin reports for Fortune. If you're in one of the careers listed above, "you may want to explore a career switch. If you’re a new college grad, you might want to consider healthcare and STEM jobs, which aren’t being eliminated due to our robot overlords."

Study: food industry workers at higher risk of occupational illness, injury and death

Compared to workers in other industries, workers in almost every step of the modern food industry are at a higher risk of occupational illness, injury and death, according to a study in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Food-industry workers had a 60 percent higher rate of occupational illness and injury than workers in other industries, and severe injuries that necessitated taking time off work were twice as frequent for food industry workers. The risk of occupational death in the food industry was 9.5 times higher than in other industries.

The researchers analyzed Bureau of Labor Statistics data on occupational disease, accidents and deaths in food-related industries between 2008 and 2010. Using the "farm-to-table" model, the study might be able to assist in targeting particular workplace hazards within the food industry, according to Kira L. Newman of Emory University and other colleagues. The farm-to-table model framework includes five majors processes: food production, processing, distribution, storage and retail.

Those working in food processing, storage and retail were more likely to be injured as a result of a slip, trip or fall than those working in other stages of the farm-to-table model. This could be related to the high use of refrigeration, researchers said, writing, "Applying the farm-to-table model within occupational health . . . can reshape the understanding of how market forces in the food industry may impact workers and consumers."

Newspaper reporter is the worst job in America; actuary is the best job

Newspaper reporter is the worst job in America, according to CareerCast's ranking of the best and worst jobs for 2015. Newspaper reporter was selected 200th our of 200 jobs ranked, based on low salary, job losses and a projected hiring outlook of negative 13.33 percent. Rankings were based on environment, outlook, income and stress.

Following newspaper reporter was lumberjack; enlisted military personnel, cook, broadcaster,  photojournalist, corrections officer, taxi driver, fire fighter, mail carrier and disc jockey. The best job is actuary, followed by audiologist; mathematician; statistician; biomedical engineer; data scientist; dental hygienist, software engineer, occupational therapist and computer systems analyst. (Read more)

What's the most over-represented job in your state?

The online Business Insider has crunched data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and come up with an interesting map that shows the most over-represented job in each state — not the most common job, but the one that is most disproprtionately concentrated in that state, compared to the nation. (Click on map for larger version)

Several states offer no surprises, reflecting concentration of certain industries: Hawaii tour guides, California farmworkers, Washington aircraft assemblers, Nevada gaming supervisors, Texas petroleum engineers, Arkansas food processing workers, Louisiana sailors, Florida motorboat operators, D.C. political scientists, New York fashion designers, Maine and Oregon loggers, Kentucky and West Virginia miners, Georgia and North Carolina textile workers, Idaho, Montana and Utah forestry technicians, and oil and gas drillers in Oklahoma, North Dakota and Wyoming.

The New Mexico physicists probably reflect the location of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Delaware chemists the site of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. Connecticut actuaries likewise represent the many insurance companies in the state, and Purdue University surely is proud that boilermakers are concentrated in Indiana. It's no surprise that butchers are big in Nebraska, but why are they likewise in Alaska? (Makes a cute rhyme.) And why are marriage and family therapists big in New Jersey? Could have something to do with their proximity to New York City. But psychiatric technicians (who knew there was such a thing?) are big in Missouri. Fascinating.