The deadly epidemic continues. The dangerous intersection of workplace violence and domestic violence resulted in a murder suicide within the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office on November 8, 2022. After receiving reports of an active shooter situation, law enforcement found the bodies of County Medical Examiner Dr. Beth Frost, age 46, and her estranged husband, the suspected perpetrator. The shootings occurred at the county's governmental facility at 2355 N. Stemmons Fr

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) advises that 2,000,000 workers are victimized by workplace violence each and every year. This is roughly equivalent to the population of the state of New Mexico. As frightening of a statistic this figure is, it is likely that number is higher because as we have discussed on this blog, many cases of workplace violence go unreported. OSHA has published a Fact Sheet on workplace violence and its prevention. Amongst