Workplace Fatalities Down in 2008, but Workplace Suicides Up

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11794

Workplace fatalities dropped in 2008, but it isn’t necessarily because of safer workplaces. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics workplace fatalities dropped by 10 percent in 2008 over the prior year. The construction industry saw the largest decline with 20 percent less fatalities. Part of the decline can be attributed to fewer workers on the job due to the recession. One number that did rise was the number of workplace suicides. The number of on the job suicides jumped by 28 percent in 2008 to 251.

[fasttense]

1. I heard on Thom Hartmann that suicides tend to go up whenever conservatives

take control of a country. Just another Benny from the bush.

[liberalmuse]

2. When I first started at this job a couple years ago...

a guy committed suicide in our gym. My boss is an emergency response and she gets nervous anytime they call her to the gym. Very sad.