The most recent annual national Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), a statistical compilation tabulated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) covering calendar year 2019, reveals that the total number of homicides occurring in U.S. workplaces in 2019 remained virtually unchanged from the year before. Please note that these data are pre-pandemic numbers, and won’t be updated to reflect 2020 numbers for several more months.
Similarly, the number of workplace suicides reported by the CFOI for 2019 increased by only three, from 304 in 2018 to 307 in 2019, although still a very high number compared to previous years dating back to 1992, the year BLS first began tabulating CFOI data.
Overall, homicides and suicides composed 14.3% of fatal occupational injuries in U.S. workplaces in 2019, a negligible 0.1% drop from 2018. Looking at the numbers another way, on average more than one homicide (and close to one suicide) occurred in U.S. workplaces every day of the year during 2019.
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