Tower Dog: The Deadliest Job in America

By Kaye McIntyre

Published April 8, 2018 at 3:35 PM CDT

Week of April 8, 2018: What's the most dangerous job in America? Not ice road trucking. Not fishing for the "deadliest catch." It's working on cell phone towers. Join us for a conversation with Douglas Scott Delaney, author of Tower Dog.

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, This American Life, and The Moth Radio Hour. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents, which changed its name in 2025 to Prairie Journal. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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