• 2 million employees experience a violent crime victimization while at work annually
• 50,500 rapes and sexual assaults occur at the workplace annually
• 1.5 million simple assaults and 395,000 aggravated assaults at the workplace reported annually
• Workplace violence committed by the following: 60% strangers; 35% acquaintance; 4% unknown and 1% intimate partner

Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. Workplace Violence, 1992-96 (PDF document, 9 pages, 77 kb). Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice; 1998.

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