From way down in the whole piece....
Four occupations with particularly high fatality rates in 2008 were fishers and related fishing workers with a fatality rate of 128.9 per 100,000 FTE’s, logging workers (115.7), aircraft pilots and flight engineers (72.4), and structural iron and steel workers (46.4).
and from your post....
professional airline pilots have the 3rd highest rate of occupational fatality
Why did you find it necessary to replace the word "aircraft" with "professional airline" I wonder?
And why not point out that the study only concerns the USA, with a higher proportion of aerial work pilots than any other country in the world, by far?
Because it made a better story for your post and gave you a headline that is totally untrue?
And what about all those amateur airline pilots? Are they 100% safe?