April 5, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Work-related homicide rates highest among cabbies, cops
Taxicab drivers and
chauffeurs face the highest on-the-job homicide rate of any occupation. In
1998, there were 17.9 homicides per 100,000 workers in these occupations,
or about 36 times the risk among all employed persons.
![Workplace homicide rates, selected occupations, 1998](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921220403im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/Apr/wk1/art03.gif)
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Public police and detectives suffered the second-highest occupational
fatality rate from homicide, 4.4 fatalities per 100,000 workers. Homicides
led all other causes of death among police in the 1992-98 period,
accounting for almost half of all their fatalities.
The rate of fatalities among private police was 4.1 per 100,000; this
was not significantly different from the rate among public police. Their
similar risk reflects the similarities of duties.
These data are products of the Census
of Fatal Occupational Injuries.
Learn more about workplace homicides in "Work-related Homicides: The
Facts" (PDF 76K), by Eric F. Sygnatur and Guy A. Toscano in the Spring 2000
issue of Compensation and Working Conditions.
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