Store Clerk Shot by Prison Guard in Wyoming

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Wyoming Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology Project (Wyoming FACE) ; Wyoming Occupational Fatality Analysis Program
• Description:
  A 26 year old female employee of a convenience store died of gunshot wounds incurred during an apparent homicide. The victim was talking on the phone when the shooting took place and the party on the phone heard the victim call a person's name, telling them "don't", and then heard the shots. A suspect was located shortly after the incident occurred and was taken into custody. The victim apparently died within a minute of the shooting and was pronounced dead by the coroner around 15 minutes after the incident occurred. Employers may be able to minimize the potential for occurrence of this type of incident through the following precautions: 1. Since convenience stores are uniquely susceptible to workplace injury resulting from violent action, there should be a policy of double-staffing. 2. Where a potential for violence is recognized that would place an employee in particular jeopardy, allowances should be made (within reason) to provide additional protection to that employee.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date provided by FACE program
  
  not printed on the report.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Food Handling
  • Food Industry
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Safety Management
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 8
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Work-operations
  • Work-analysis
  • Work-areas
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93WY004
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wyoming ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028758
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-103490
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 93WY004, 1993 Sep ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Performing Organization:
  Wyoming Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  44-45 - Retail Trade - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  1996/09/29
• Resource Number:
  FACE-93WY004
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/166415/cdc_166415_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 61.55 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c893f9b53d061f82d2d8e8111775c48ef040c634c8d8fa48d7a3295649e9d51673d1ab1c405882e3f04a2b4dbcbb9485eebc7ec181be5be7731c731ea77a005