On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Kelley wrote:
> At 01:51 PM 11/4/03 -0500, jeffrey fisher wrote:
>> kelley: i'd love to see those flat stats. any references to hand?
>
> http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t02.htm
> http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm
> http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/archive/spring2001art2.pdf
>
> etceterataratarah! :) you can find more at the bls. sorry for the
> quick and dirty cut'n'paste job below. didn't look around long enough
> to find any evidence to support the tentative claim that more sizzlean
> die from traffic accidents than from firearm/knife homicides but i
> think that might have been something a client told me. he used to work
> for the DC police:
>
> The occupation one chooses and
> the industry in which one works are
> two of the greatest risk factors for be-ing
> the victim of an occupational homi-cide.
> Inequalities in access to the labor
> market and unequal distribution of risk
> within jobs are potential explanations
> for racial disparity in occupational fa-talities.
> 15 Occupations with high num-bers
> of homicides include those in
> which workers typically engage in cash
> transactions or have valuables on hand,
> such as managers of food and lodging
> establishments, sales supervisors and
> proprietors, cashiers, and taxicab driv-ers.
> 16 For many high-risk industries, the
> risk is excessive for male workers only.17
>
> In 1993, for example, the occupation
> with the largest share of occupational
> homicides was taxi drivers and chauf-feurs,
> with a rate of 43.1 per 100,000
> employed.18 This occupation ac-counted
> for almost one-tenth of all vic-tims
> but for fewer than one-half of 1
> percent of the workforce. Gas station
> attendants, sales counter clerks, and
> police each had a homicide rate of ap-proximately
> 11 workers per 100,000 over
> the period studied.19 Estimates indicate
> that approximately 100 workers each
> year are murdered while working in con-venience
> stores.
>
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