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by excuse-me 5107 days ago
And different jobs - a printer jam doesn't do quite the same damage as an explosion in a coal mine.

Accident RATES in factories have gone down a lot, construction/farming a little less so - but the number of peopel exposed to the risk environment has dropped a lot

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A printer jam in 2012 doesn't mean quite the same thing as a printer jam in 1912 either.
You're thinking of the 100s killed in the great Difference Engine bug of 1868