National Victimization Survey

The U.S. Department of Justice statistics on victims of crime, as found in the 1994 National Victimization Survey, indicates, excluding homicides, that during that year one million workers were victims of violence at work. In fact, from 1987 to 1993, approximately one milhon persons annually were assaulted at work. One in six violent crimes in the... 

Source U.S. Dept, of Justice, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2002, available online at URL http //www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/cv2.htm. 

The National Crime Victimization Survey, conducted from 1993 to 1999, highlighted several key points ... 

Warchol, G. 1998, July. Workplace Violence, 1992-1996. National Crime Victimization Survey. (Report No. NCJ-168634). Washington, DC Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice. Available www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wv96.pdf [accessed December 12,1999]. 

According to the Department of Justice s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), assaults and threats of violence against Americans at woik number almost 2 million a year. The most common type of workplace violent crime was simple assault, with an average of 1.5 million a year. There were 396,000 aggravated assaults, 51,000 rapes and sexual assaults, 84,000 robberies, and 1,000 homicides. Again, according to the NCVS, retail sales workers were the most numerous victims, with... 

Warchol, G. Workplace Violence, 1992-96. National Crime Victimization Survey. (Report No. NCJ-168634). Washington, D.C. 1998. 

The estimated annual victimizations for the years of 1992 through 1996 for workplace aimes counted by the Bureaus of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that... 

U.S. Department of Justice s Bureau of Justice Statistics, Annual National Crime Victimization Survey for 1992-1996. Washington, DC 1998. 

DEHP is lipophilic and tends to migrate into adipose deposits. Since it is cleared from these deposits slowly, analysis of fat tissues probably provides the best test for previous exposure to this plasticizer. Analysis of human abdominal adipose tissues from accident victims indicated that DEHP was present in these tissues at a concentration of 0.3-1.0 ppm (Mes et al. 1974). DEHP was also identified in 48% of the adipose tissue specimens from cadavers autopsied in 1982 as part of the Human Adipose Tissue Survey from the National Human Monitoring Program (EPA 1989b). Neither study contained data on DEHP exposure history of the subjects, however, and there is no information regarding correlation of adipose tissue concentrations with DEHP exposure concentration and duration. 

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