European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Tuesday november 30,1993 a cabbie cop or clerk Job could get you killed Washington a taxi Drivers police an people who work with Money Are at highest risk of being slain on the Job and in a handful of states Homi cide is the leading cause of All workplace deaths a fed eral study says. Of the 7,603 americans slain on the Job in the last decade 985 workers were killed in Alabama connect Cut Maryland Michigan South Carolina and washing ton . New York docs not tabulate on the Job homicide but the National Institute of occupational safety and health estimated its toll at 867. If accurate that would make new York the capital of workplace killings. A full state by state list of homicides was not available. We need to Reali a that these fatal injuries Are not acts of god said Lynn Jenkins author of the nosh study. They Are preventable and we must take Steps to find out what the risks Are and How to prevent most Likely to be slain at work were taxi Drivers police officers and retail workers those people working with Money or valuables or working alone and at night she said. The Stutsy noted however that some Progress has been made. Workplace deaths Overall declined by More than 1,600 Between 1980 and 1989. Nosh first warned about workplace homicide Las month when a Early analysis of this study showed slayings to be the biggest killer of working women. The full study released monday offers the first state by state look at the problem. Nosh wants state governments to find ways to prevent the biggest killers of their workers Jenkins said. Nationwide 62,289 civilians died on the Job from1980 through 1989 about 17 workers a Day. Another 1,300 soldiers perished. Overall homicide was the third leading killer of civil ians following motor vehicle crashes and machine injuries. Texas California Florida Illinois and Pennsylvania had the highest number of workplace fatalities. But a better measure of risk is the rate of fatalities per 100,000 workers. Using that the workers most at risk were in Alaska with 34.8 deaths per 100,000 work ers followed by Wyoming 29 Montana 20.9 Idaho 16.7 and West Virginia 15.7. The safest workers were in Connecticut with a fatality rate of 1.8 Massachusetts 2.3 and new York 2.6 even though Connecticut and new York had 50 and867 workplace slayings respectively. Other homicide tolls include 211 victims in Alabama 70 in Washington . 180 in Maryland 313 in Michi Gan and 161 in South Carolina. Water related accidents were the top killer of alas Kan workers and air transportation accidents led in Hawaii and Nevada. Car crashes were the biggest kill ers in the remaining states. Construction and transportation Utility workers accounted for the most fatalities 18 percent each. But the Riskiest occupation was mining. Almost 32 of every 100,000 workers in the mining Industry died Fol Lowed by 25.6 construction workers. High tech Protection Newborn Kyle Mcanallen models his Security Anklet last doors halts elevators and sounds an alarm when anyone wednesday at a new Hampshire Hospital where each in tries to leave the maternity Ward with a monitored infant Fant is titled with a Small plastic transmitter that locks the Hospital did not want to be identified. To Pioneer Garry Moore Dies at 78 of Hilton had Island . A Garry Moore an Early to Pioneer known for his Charm comic personality and Long running variety show has died of emphysema. I be was 78. Moore died sunday after a seven year Battle with the respiratory Dis ease said his son Garry Mort it or. Moore was Host lbs the carry show off and on from 1 pm until 1%7. He also played Host on the quiz shows i be clot a secret which ran from las2 to a on i us and to i of j ii with a syndicated 5,How thai ran torn 1% j to iv7t. Moore i remember a Bow tie and a Crew Cut and an agreeable personality who Al ways was Welcome in our Home in the Midwest growing up in the 50s and watching to said Tom Shales the to critic for the Washington Post. Carol Burnett Don Knotts Alan King and Jonathan Winters were among entertainers who got their starts on the variety show. Born Thomas Garrison Morfit in Baltimore on jan.31, 1915, Moore quit High school to work in radio be coming a sports commentator and later a comedy writer who teamed up with Jimmy Durante for a weekly program on the Wijs radio network. Then he took a Chance with his new thing to in1950, his son said. In 1958, lbs moved the Garry Moore show from daytime to evening. The network cancelled it in 1964 alter it io3t ground among younger viewers. It was Biou Ghl Back in Coly in in o6 but cancelled in Story on torture killings causes Flap in Canada from wire reports Detroit a Canadian ban on coverage of sensational torture slaying Case prompted at least three Canadian distributors to refuse to sell the Detroit news and free press which carried a front Page Story on the la be suicide to sell it said Tim Quinn of Lake Ontario distributors one of the Independent Ontario based distributors who refused to sell the sunday edition of the news. Niagara Falls Ontario police told me they la be watching All night for trucks he said. They said they would confiscate the papers and arrest the Detroit newspapers which oversees operations of the Detroit news and free press said it sent papers Over the Border without distributors refused to sell them or removed the front Section to avoid arrest the news reported monday. The cast involves a couple accused of kidnapping teen age girls performing sex acts and then torturing and killing them. The wife has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a plea bargain. Ontario Justice Francis Kovacs has blocked foreign Media from his courtroom in St. Catharines Ontario under a Law that allows judges to order a virtual blackout on trial coverage in an attempt to ensure fair trial. He also has restricted the coverage of Canadian journalists. 7 killed in 2-car collision Fayetteville . A Motorist changing lanes on a Slick Highway triggered a collision tha killed seven people authorities said. The Driver of a jeep Cherokee realized too late that another Auto was in his path As he changed lanes saturday night on interstate 95, said state trooper Chris Dew. The jeep swerved Back into its original Lane but went out of control. It shot across the median and collided with a Small White car travelling South on the wet Highway. The Accident set both vehicles on fire and scattered wreckage for 50 feet. The two people in the jeep and All five people in the car were killed. They had not been identified by Early sunday. Andrea Doria Art pondered Nantucket mass. A Salvage diver who raised four of five italian artworks from the sunken Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island is considering what to do with the 5-by-6-Fobt panels. The abstract Ceramic friezes by italian artist Guido Gambony had been commissioned for the first class lounge of the italian luxury liner. The vessel collide with the swedish liner Stockholm in 1956 and Sank in More than 200 feet of water killing 51. Diver John mover recovered the panels which weigh about 700 pounds each. He has secured exclusive Salvage rights to the Andrea Doria for next year when he plans to try to recover the larger fifth panel which is about 6-by-20 feet. Gary Gentile another diver who worked with Moyer described the panels As very bizarre in the style of Pablo Picasso. Plane explosion kills Pilot Evans City a. A Small plane crashed into a Pennsylvania farmhouse during a snowstorm triggering an explosion that killed the Pilot. None of the occupants of the House in Forward about 35 Miles North of Pittsburgh was injured seriously in the crash. Coroner William Young said the Pilot was a local Man who had taken off from the Butler county Airport shortly before the crash at 4 . said the Pilot s name would not be released until positive identification could be made. The plane exploded seconds after it hit the two Story Home owned by George and Patricia Wright. The Wrights whose Ages were not available an their son Dave in his mid-30s, escaped with Only minor injuries. The three were treated by a ambulance Crew at the scene and were staying with family members. All three were reported to be shaken up but in Good condition. Quilts born in new Orleans new Orleans a set of quintuplets three t girls and two boys were born sunday night at a new Orleans Hospital. Doctors say the babies born to Jimmy and Linda thu Inlet of Gretna it Southern Baptist Hospital Are doing Tine. The Guillet bancs Are named Allison Christopher Emily Brook and Brett
