I couldn’t get the article, but were cops even on the list?
No. The last three were roofers, structural iron and steel workers, and farmers and ranchers (e.g. getting tangled in tractors). (But, hay balers are pretty safe, apparently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqtb1uKWB40 - NSFW, but coffee-coming-out-of-your-nose-funny anyway.)
I doubt being a cop is even in the top 20, contrary to the impression they’d like to leave.
no cops
Cops aren’t on the top 7 (tenth), nor are firemen. Firemen tend to die after they are no longer able to do their jobs via too much smoke inhalation. I was surprised at the list too, as I thought that convenience store clerks and taxi drivers have jobs more immediately dangerous than cops.
Fishing, logging, aircraft pilot/flight engineer, farmer/rancher, miner, roofer, garbage/recyclable collector, truck driver, stuntman, police.
Over a ten-year period (2002-2011), 1,559 U.S. cops died on the job (source http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/causes.html). Of these, 570 were shot on the job. In two years (2008-2009), 284 U.S. cops committed suicide (source http://badgeoflife.com/currentmyths.php). So a cop is almost as likely to die of suicide as on the job.
No. But they are "special" don't you know.