Twenty-five year occupational homicide mortality trends in North Carolina: 1992-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Determining industry of decedents and victim-perpetrator relationships is crucial to inform and evaluate occupational homicide prevention strategies. In this study, we examine occupational homicide rates in North Carolina (NC) by victim characteristics, industry and victim-perpetrator relationship from 1992 to 2017.

Methods

Occupational homicides were identified from records of the NC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner system and the NC death certificates. Sex, age, race, ethnicity, class of worker, manner of death, victim-perpetrator relationship and industry were abstracted. Crude and age-standardised homicide rates were calculated as the number of homicides that occurred at work divided by an estimate of worker-years (w-y). Rate ratios and 95% CIs were calc

SUBMITTER: Martin CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11322415 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature