On Nov. 23, 2013, 26-year-old Tyson Barnette was shot multiple times while delivering the mail in Landover, Maryland. On Feb. 26, 2013, federal corrections officer Eric Williams was stabbed with a homemade weapon at the high-security Canaan penitentiary in Pennsylvania.
In 2013 57 federal employees were killed on the job, according to preliminary data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is up from 54 in 2012 and 41 in 2011.
The numbers include federal civilian employees within the United States and not civilians overseas, such as Foreign Service or intelligence workers. They exclude employees who died because of an illness, and they exclude military personnel.
For a workforce of a little over 2 million, that works out to roughly one fatality for every 36,000 employees. That compares well to the private sector, which saw 3,929 job-related fatalities in 2013 out of about 117 million people — or about one fatality for every 29,700 workers.
Seventeen mail carriers were killed on the job, the highest number of any agency, according to the BLS. Seven federal law enforcement officers were killed.
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Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics- 19 postal workers were killed in 2013, down from 21 in 2012 (graphic created by postalreporter.com).
Click on graphic to view stats overview from 2003-2013
Wow MROD, you didn’t even read the chart did you? 1 carrier died all year due heat…if heat were such a huge factor, that number would be incredibly higher!!! Quit crying about the heat and get back to work!!!
mrod,
well, go git you some!
Well in Texas we’re dying cause we dont have a/c in the summertime with hot humid temp s.