April 27, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Taxicabs have by far the greatest work-related homicide risk
The taxicabs
industry has the highest homicide rate of any industry, almost 36
homicides per 100,000 employed. This group comprises 0.1 percent of
employed workers in the United States but accounts for almost 7 percent of
work-related homicides.
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Food stores such as grocery stores and bakeries incurred a
rate of 3.1 homicides per 100,000. Eating and drinking places followed
with 1.0 per 100,000.
Data on workplace fatalities are from the BLS
Safety and
Health Statistics program. To learn
more about work-related fatalities, see "Work-related Homicides: The
Facts" (PDF 76K), by Eric Sygnatur and Guy A. Toscano, Compensation and
Working Conditions, Spring 2000.
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