Workplace homicides committed by firearm: recent trends and narrative text analysis

Table 1 Firearm-related Workplace Homicides Violence Typology Counts, by Motivation and Circumstance, CFOI, 2011–2015

	Typology^a					Total (n = 1553)	P-value
	Assailant unknown, criminal intent (Type I)	Customers or clients (Type II)	Co-worker or work associate (Type III)	Personal relationship (Type IV)	Unknown typology^b	Total (n = 1553)	P-value
Motivation							P < 0.0001
Non-robbery-motivated n (%)	175 (23.5)	157 (21.1)	200 (26.9)	179 (24.1)	33 (4.4)	744
Robbery-motivated n (%)	592 (95.6)	-- (--)	12 (1.9)	10 (1.6)	-- (--)	619
Unknown Motivation n (%) ^c	54 (28.4)	17 (9)	4 (2.1)	5 (2.6)	110 (57.9)	190
Circumstance^d							P < 0.0001
Arguments n (%)	42 (12.2)	142 (41.3)	114 (33.1)	36 10.5)	10 (2.9)	344
Conflicts n (%)	15 (6.8)	4 (1.8)	66 (30)	132 (60)	3 (1.4)	220
Other Circumstances n (%)	118 (65.6)	11 (6.1)	20 (11.1)	11 (6.1)	20 (11.1)	180

Fatal injury counts were generated by authors with restricted access to BLS CFOI microdata. Row may not add up to 100 due to rounding. Firearm-related workplace homicide defined by Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System codes as: Nature of injury/illness (1340); Event or Exposure (1111); Source of Injury/Illness (57, excluding 578); Secondary source of injury/illness (78, excluding 7813)
-- Indicates no data or data that do not meet BLS publication criteria
^aTypology consists of the following OIICS source codes: Type I (5770, 5771, 5772, 5773, 5779); Type II (5730, 5740, 5750); Type III (5720); Type IV (5710, 5711, 5712, 5719, 5760); Unknown (5700, 5790)
^bUnknown typology refers to cases where there was not enough information pertaining to the perpetrator to characterize violence typology
^cUnknown motivation refers to cases where there was not enough information pertaining to what motivated the workplace homicide
^dCircumstance coded only among cases confirmed to be non-robbery-motivated (n = 744)

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