17 Jobs That Can Up Your Risk for Cancer

The risk of injury in construction work is pretty common - flout the rules, or stop paying attention - and you could be a goner in a matter of seconds. But construction work can also give you cancer. The more obvious kind is skin cancer - since construction exposes workers to long periods of sunlight, the risk of various kinds of skin cancers goes up significantly, as it does with other outdoor jobs like gardening, landscaping, architecture et al.