Workplace Shootings

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hartley D
• Description:
  A United States Postal Service letter carrier killed fourteen coworkers and himself at the Edmond, Oklahoma, post office on August 20, 1986. This remains the single most deadly workplace violence shooting incident in the United States. Second on the list was when an army psychiatrist shot thirteen people to death and wounded thirty-two others at Fort Hood in Texas on November 5, 2009 (FBI 2019). National news coverage of workplace homicides usually covers incidents-such as these two-that involve multiple victims and/or hostage situations. Although these multiple-victim incidents occur less frequently, they overshadow the fact that, on average, more than one person is a victim of homicide while at work or on duty every day in the United States. The three most frequent exposure events resulting in workplace homicides are shootings (firearm incidents), stabbings, and hitting, kicking, and beating incidents, respectively (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] 2019b). A total of 458 people were victims of workplace homicides in 2017 (BLS 2019b). Being shot was the event leading to death for 352, or 77 percent, of these victims. The typical workplace firearm homicide involves one assailant and one victim in a robbery situation (BLS 2010, 2019a). According to a June 2019 BLS report, multiple-fatality incidents, where two or more victims are killed, accounted for seventy-six workplace homicide victims in 2017. These multiple-fatality incidents accounted for 17 percent of all workplace homicides in 2017 (BLS 2019a). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mortality Occupational Health Safety Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Assaults Fatalities Firearms Gunshot Wounds Homicides Workplace Violence
• ISBN:
  9781440867736
• Publisher:
  ABC-CLIO
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066811
• Citation:
  Guns in American society: an encyclopedia of history, politics, culture, and the law, third edition. Schildkraut J, Carter GL eds. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2022 Dec; 1:938-946
• Editor(s):
  Schildkraut J; Carter GL
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Guns in American society: an encyclopedia of history, politics, culture, and the law, third edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:88d78dfccf6b6bea3d15185a06961abd9ee2e4078f308bc913bffd12c712e8d1c03a9637b4e69c792e1b146ce5c17fd1e6c52bba924b60d207b258b8dc7d55ba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/231162/cdc_231162_DS1.pdf
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