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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by rpiguy on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:16AM (#16754870)
Homicide has long been the number 2 cause of death in the workplace in the U.S. You can find statistics going back as far as 1992. Layoffs are indeed often a motivation.

Hence the term, "going postal."

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by refurb on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:03AM (#16755376)
Homicide has long been the number 2 cause of death in the workplace in the U.S.

That stat doesn't pass the sniff test, so I looked up some numbers[1].

In 2016, there were 500 workplace homicides in the US. No where near the 2nd most common cause of death.

[1]https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by rpiguy on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:18PM (#16804916)
It depends on if you group together accidental deaths. Homicide is not number 2 if you break all the accidents out, for example, "vehicle accidents," "falls," etc. are both more frequent than homicides. If you group together accident-types, then homicide is number 2 and you will often see it referred to as such.

https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy03/46j3-ht47/prev...

I should have clarified that I can see how it would seem improbable.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by rectang on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:37AM (#16755727)
It looks like it depends how you group the causes around it. A more easily defensible way to put it is that around one in ten US workplace deaths are caused by homicide.
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