Twenty-five year occupational homicide mortality trends in North Carolina: 1992–2017

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• Alternative Title:
  Inj Prev
• Personal Author:
  Martin, Chelsea Leonard ; Richardson, David B. ; Richey, Morgan ; Nocera, Maryalice ; Cantrell, John ; McClure, Elizabeth S. ; Martin, Amelia T. ; Marshall, Stephen W. ; Ranapurwala, Shabbar I.
• Description:
  Introduction:
  
  Determining industry of decedents and victim-perpetrator relationships is crucial to inform and evaluate occupational homicide prevention strategies. In this study, we examine occupational homicide rates in North Carolina (NC) by victim characteristics, industry, and victim-perpetrator relationship from 1992 to 2017.
  
  Methods:
  
  Occupational homicides were identified from records of the NC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner system and the NC death certificate. Sex, age, race, ethnicity, class of worker, manner of death, victim-perpetrator relationship, and industry were abstracted. Crude and age standardized homicide rates were calculated as the number of homicides that occurred at work divided by an estimate of worker-years (w-y). Rate ratios and 95% CIs were calculated, and trends over calendar time in occupational homicide rates were examined overall and by industry.
  
  Results:
  
  456 homicides over 111,573,049 w-y were observed. Occupational homicide rates decreased from 0.82 per 100,000 w-y for the period 1992–1995 to 0.21 per 100,000 w-y for the period 2011–2015, but increased to 0.32 per 100,000 w-y in the period 2016–2017. Fifty five percent (252) of homicides were perpetrated by strangers. Taxi drivers experienced an occupational homicide rate that was 110 times (95%CI: 76.52, 160.19) the overall occupational homicide rate in NC; however, this rate declined by 76.5% between 1992–2017. Disparities were observed among workers 65+ years old, racially and ethnically minoritized workers, and self-employed workers.
  
  Conclusion:
  
  Our findings identify industries and worker demographics that experienced high occupational homicide fatality rates. Targeted and tailored mitigation strategies among vulnerable industries and workers are recommended.
  
  
• Source:
  Inj Prev.
• Pubmed ID:
  38355295
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11322415
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 OH011256/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE002479/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003092/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; T42 OH008673/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
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  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:31c7d38f6ad4ed2588fcf599db1f927e7b832802e8cc562505bfd5ddaef91e5b3e17613a17db1932a93c906a01d9a50bc9e9085a8478a276db5888a88b6a8108
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