If you are a supervisor in your workplace and you die at work, there is a 10% chance that it was murder. If you're not in management, the chances of your case being a murder drops to 7%. Gizmodo crunched the statistics on the 4,547 American workplace deaths in 2010 and found some other interesting tidbits:
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Overall, "Transportation and material moving occupations"—people who work operating vehicles—dominated the death list, with 1,115 killed on the job. Only seven percent of them were murdered.
The 45-54 year-old bracket made up the plurality of deaths, with a full quarter. 16% of them plummeted to their demises.
The deadliest state to work in? Texas, with 456 fatalities. The safest? New Hampshire, with only 5. West Virginia won the explosion death contest, with 34—likely from all that coal mining, which is extremely dangerous and explosion-prone.
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This is only for fatal injuries, not all workplace deaths. Back in the 80's, when I was at a plant with 10,000, every year three men would die at their desks from heart attacks. That is ten times the current death rate from injuries.
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