Thanks to Twitter chatter about the deadliest occupations, I was looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics'
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries and found this interesting tidbit: in 2013, 3 chemists died on the job. Their cause of death is not clear, but it seems to me (from the table) that at least 1 of them died from "violence and other injuries by persons or animals."
Any ideas?
Cheating spouses or co-workers murdered at work?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it was this case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting
ReplyDelete2010, and none of them were chemists, I think. (And they'd be coded as "biological science teachers, post-secondary", I think.)
DeleteIf you check the footnotes these deaths include self inflicted injury. My guess is at least one of these deaths is a grad student suicide. There was a sophomore engineering student who committed suicide in the biomedical labs at Northwestern (Dmitri Teplov). At least five students of various majors died in Northwestern in 2013.
ReplyDeleteAre pharma sales reps 'chemists?'
http://www.hidesertstar.com/news/article_fcee3f20-b8e0-11e2-bf77-001a4bcf887a.html
Anon, astute catch. I completely forgot to check the footnotes, even as I was reminding myself to do so.
DeleteThat said, dunno how BLS codes grad students. I suspect they code them as students and not chemists. Same w/pharma sales reps, more like sales reps.
DeleteMy guess is this counts for the self inflicted:
ReplyDeletehttp://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2013/01/rip-daniel-havey.html?m=1