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Table 3 Characteristics of the victims of Firearm-related Workplace Homicides by Motivation and Violence Typology, CFOI 2011–2015

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

 

Robbery-Motivateda

Non-robbery motivated

Type I

Total

(n = 616)

Type I

Type II

Type III

Type IV

Total

(n = 711)

Industryb

(n, %)

 Labor

60 (93.8)

64

22 (16.7)

14 (10.6)

67 (50.8)

29 (22)

132

 Retail

386 (95.6)

404

33 (16.3)

78 (38.4)

37 (18.2)

55 (27.1)

203

 Transportation

85 (98.8)

86

18 (34.6)

12 (23.1)

11 (21.2)

11 (21.2)

52

 Health care

5 (100)

5

5 (10.4)

8 (16.7)

9 (18.8)

26 (54.2)

48

 Professional

21 (100)

21

10 (15.4)

18 (27.7)

20 (30.8)

17 (26.2)

65

 Education/arts

6 (100)

6

13 (30.2)

9 (20.9)

11 (25.6)

10 (23.3)

43

 Public Administration

6 (100)

6

45 (56.3)

0 (0.0)

32 (40)

3 (3.8)

80

 Other

23 (95.8)

24

29 (33)

18 (20.5)

13 (14.8)

28 (31.8)

88

Gender

(n, %)

 Female

57 (95)

60

29 (16)

15 (8.3)

27 (14.9)

110 (60.8)

181

 Male

535 (96.2)

556

146 (27.6)

142 (26.8)

173 (32.6)

69 (13)

530

Age

(n, %)

 16–19

10 (90.9)

11

-- (--)

-- (--)

3 (37.5)

3 (37.5)

8

 20–24

51 (96.2)

53

8 (15.7)

16 (31.4)

15 (29.4)

12 (23.5)

51

 25–34

110 (94.5)

116

44 (28)

34 (21.7)

44 (28)

35 (22.3)

157

 35–44

109 (96.5)

113

46 (26.6)

37 (21.4)

38 (22)

52 (30.1)

173

 45–54

158 (95.8)

165

37 (19.3)

42 (21.9)

59 (30.7)

54 (28.1)

192

 55–64

112 (98.5)

114

26 (27.1)

19 (19.8)

32 (33.3)

19 (19.8)

96

 65+

42 (95.5)

44

13 (38.2)

8 (23.5)

9 (26.5)

4 (11.8)

34

Race

(n, %)

 White

298 (95.8)

311

118 (27.8)

75 (17.7)

128 (30.2)

103 (24.3)

424

 Non-White

294 (96.4)

305

57 (19.9)

82 (28.6)

72 (25.1)

76 (26.5)

287

Ethnicity

(n, %)

 Hispanic

98 (99)

99

27 (21.6)

30 (24)

36 (28.8)

32 (25.6)

125

 Non-Hispanic

493 (95.5)

516

147 (25.3)

126 (12.7)

163 (28.1)

144 (24.8)

580

  1. Fatal injury counts were generated by authors with restricted access to BLS CFOI microdata. Table excludes 146 workplace homicides without a known typology. The following characteristics contain missing information: There are 7 cases with missing ethnicity information
  2. -- Indicates no data or data that do not meet BLS publication criteria
  3. aExcludes 24 type II-type IV firearm-related workplace homicides
  4. bIndustry was determined by combined North American Industry Classification System codes. Labor industry consists of Agriculture, Mining, Utilities, Construction, Manufacturing, Wholesale, and Waste Management. Retail industry consist of Retail and Accommodations/food services. Professional industries consist of Finance/insurance, Information, Real Estate, Professional Scientific Services, Managers. All other categories are self-contained NAICS codes