Employee injuries and convenience store robberies in selected metropolitan areas.

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• Personal Author:
  Amandus HE ; Block C ; Bynum T ; Friedmann R ; Hoffman D ; Holmes W ; Kessler D ; Malcan J ; McManus R ; Rogan D ; Ruback RB ; Weiss J ; Wellford C ; Zahm D
• Description:
  A study was conducted examining the annual incidence of convenience store robberies and associated employee injuries in several metropolitan areas. Data on convenience store robbery related injuries were obtained from State Statistical Analysis Centers in nine states which included 19 metropolitan areas. A total of 12 homicides and 219 nonfatal injuries of convenience store employees was identified in the 1,835 convenience store robberies that occurred in a 1 year period between 1992 and 1993. A weapon was displayed but no injuries suffered in 1,071 robberies and in 238 robberies there was no weapon and no injury, but an employee was struck, pushed, or shoved. The proportion of robberies resulting in a homicide ranged from 0.000 to 0.013 and the proportion resulting in nonfatal injury ranged from 0.03 to 0.24 in the study areas. In Baltimore, Detroit, and Virginia, the proportions of convenience store robberies resulting in employee homicides and injuries equaled or exceeded 0.14. The authors conclude that selected metropolitan areas have high risk of employee injury in convenience store robberies and emphasize the need for improved robbery prevention programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; Workplace-violence; Violent-behavior; Safety-research; Demographic-characteristics; Convenience-stores; Occupational-hazards; Injury-prevention; Traumatic-injuries;
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Illinois ; Maryland ; Massachusetts ; Michigan ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; South Carolina ; Virginia ; 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:
  38
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00234506
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 1996 Jul; 38(7):714-720
• Contact Point Address:
  Harlan E. Amandus, PhD, Analysis and Field Evaluations Branch, Division of Safety Research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/247871/cdc_247871_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]