H omicide was the third leading cause of occupational injury death in the United States from 1980 to 1988. Twelve percent of all occupational injury deaths in the period were homicides. Only motor vehicle (23%) and machine related (13%) incidents accounted for more deaths. State specific studies in North Carolina (Sniezek, 1989) and Texas (CDC, 1985) yielded similar results, with homicide accounting for 12% and 14% of the occupational injury deaths in those states, respectively. The initial Texas study included only males. A subsequent analysis of data for females yielded dramatically different results, with homicide accounting for 53% of all occupational injury deaths of Texas females (Davis, 1987a). An analysis of National Traumatic Occupational Fatality (NTOF) data for the United