Study: Costs from workplace homicides are significant
Workplace homicides resulted in a total cost of nearly $6.5 billion and a mean cost of $800,000 between 1992 and 2001, NIOSH researchers estimate in a study published in the June 2005 issue of American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
The retail trade industry had the highest number of homicides and total cost for that period, $2.1 billion for male employees and $556,000 for female employees.