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 Who’s up for some good homicide jokes (as opposed to good Homicide jokes) at 8 in the morning?
Not me. (I’ve been up all night telling them.) That’s why this story’s getting the <blockquote> treatment:
Homicides accounted for 29 percent of workplace deaths in the Philadelphia area last year, the highest percentage of the country’s 12 largest metropolitan areas, according to government figures.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said Monday that there were 93 workplace fatalities in the area last year, with 27 of those being homicides. Other causes included falls to a lower level (14) and highway crashes (12). [...]
“The construction industry sector accounted for almost one-quarter of Philadelphia’s fatal workplace injuries with 22 deaths; 14 of these were from falls,” the bureau said. Another 17 deaths occurred in the transportation and material moving sectors.
I’m going to be on optimist for once: At least workplace fatalities are so now low that homicides make up a large percentage. Plus, this is actually everywhere:
Philadelphia was not alone in having homicide as the number one cause of workplace fatalities last year. That also occurred in Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Miami, and San Francisco, the bureau said.
Still, though, that won’t stop some lazy sports columnists (sorry, redundant) from writing a column about “the time Philadelphians killed Santa Claus with snowballs back in 1868″ sometime soon enough.
Almost a third of ’07 workplace deaths in area homicides [Phila. Business Journal]
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