In mid-February in Aurora, Illinois, a 15-year employee, called into Human Resources at his employer's facility for a termination meeting, opened fire with a handgun, killing five employees, including the human resources manager, a human resources intern and the plant manager, as well as wounding five police officers.
|458 workplace homicide in 2017
According to its most recent statistics, the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there were 458 workplace homicides in 2017, 351 of which involved shootings.
Workplace violence can occur in many forms, including active shooters, arson, criminal or gang violence, explosives, cyberattacks, and terrorism. Aside from the devastating human trauma, it can have far-reaching costs and consequences for employers, such as government agency citations, lawsuits, insurability issues, loss of consumer confidence, service disruptions, increased labor and health care costs and negative publicity.
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