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WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

  • Homicides accounted for 11 percent (608) of all fatal injuries that took place at work in 2002.110
  • An average of 1.7 million violent victimizations are committed annually against persons at work or on duty.111
  • The majority of workplace violent crimes are aggravated and simple assaults. Rape, sexual assault, robbery, and homicide account for 6 percent of all incidents.112
  • About 1 percent of all workplace victimizations were committed by an intimate of the victim.113


    110 Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2003). Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2002. Online: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm [Accessed October 28, 2003].

    111 Duhart, Detis. (2002). Violence in the Workplace, 1993-99. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

    112 See 111.

    113 See 111.
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