@article{ref1,
title="Eleven years of occupational mortality in law enforcement: The census of fatal occupational injuries, 1992-2002",
journal="American journal of industrial medicine",
year="2010",
author="Tiesman, Hope M. and Hendricks, Scott A. and Bell, Jennifer L. and Amandus, Harlan E.",
volume="53",
number="9",
pages="940-949",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Occupational injury deaths remain high for Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs). This study describes and compares intentional and transportation-related fatality rates in US LEOs between 1992 and 2002. METHODS: Workplace injury deaths among LEOs from 1992 to 2002 were categorized into &quot;Intentional,&quot; &quot;Transportation-related,&quot; and &quot;Other,&quot; using the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. Occupations included in this analysis were sheriffs and bailiffs, police and detectives, non-public service guards, and correctional officers. Fatality rates were compared among law enforcement occupations, cause of death, and demographics with rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: During the 11-year period, 2,280 workers died from an occupational injury, for a fatality rate of 11.8 per 100,000 across all LEO occupations. Forty-seven percent were homicides (n = 1,072, rate 5.6 per 100,000), 36% transportation-related (n = 815, rate 4.2 per 100,000), 11% were due to other causes (n = 249, rate 1.3 per 100,000), and 5% were workplace suicides (n = 122, rate 0.6 per 100,000). The proportion of fatalities by cause of death differed significantly between occupations (P < 0.0001). Sheriffs and bailiffs experience a high risk for occupational injury death compared to other law enforcement occupations. Of the transportation-related fatalities, LEOs were operating a motor-vehicle in 58% of the incidents and 22% of the fatalities were struck by incidents. CONCLUSIONS: Transportation-related deaths were nearly as common as homicides as a cause of occupational injury death among US LEOs. Struck by vehicle incidents remain an important and overlooked cause of death. This research points to opportunities for the prevention of transportation-related deaths in law enforcement.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0271-3586",
doi="10.1002/ajim.20863",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.20863"
}