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August 28, 2001 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Increase in job-related homicides in 2000The number of job-related homicides rose from 651 in 1999 to 677 in 2000—the first increase in six years. However, the total number of workplace homicides in 2000 was still 37 percent lower than the high of 1,080 homicides reported in 1994. For those workplace homicides where the motive could be determined, homicides in which robbery was the initial motive increased from 255 cases in 1999 to 291 cases in 2000. In the retail trade industry, the number of job-related homicides rose from 264 in 1999 to 310 in 2000. Outside of retail trade, the number of homicides actually declined between 1999 and 2000, from 387 to 367. These data are a product of the BLS Safety and Health Statistics Program. Additional information is available from "National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2000," news release USDL 01-261. Related TED articles:
Happy 10th Birthday, TED!The very first issue of The Editor's Desk (TED) was posted on September 28, 1998. TED was the first online-only publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 10 years, BLS has been committed to posting a new TED article each business day, for a total of over 2,400 articles so far. |
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