Monday’s deadly workplace shooting in Orange County is the first mass work-related shooting in Florida in the last four years.
John Robert Neumann Jr., 45, fatally shot Robert Snyder, 69, Kevin Lawson, 46, Brenda Montanez-Crespo, 44, Kevin Clark, 53, and Jeff Roberts, 57, before turning the gun on himself shortly after 8 a.m. at Fiamma Inc., a manufacturer awnings for of recreational vehicles on Forsyth Road near Hanging Moss Road, deputies said.
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Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows an average of 500 workplace homicides each year, and about 2 million incidents of workplace violence each year.
According to the bureau, 77 percent of all fatal workplace incidents involve a firearm, while only 14 percent involve multiple fatalities.
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The last work-related homicide to take place in Florida happened in 2013 in Lake Butler, when Hubert Allen Jr. drove around on a Saturday, targeting former co-workers, killing two and wounding two others.
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"They happen because this is the world we live in," said security expert Zach Hudson of Grantham Systems. “It is up to the company to take steps. When you terminate a person, what protocols are you taking to prevent that person from coming back on property?"
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Hudson said companies have focused on physical barriers to prevent violence, but need to make employees aware when there is a possible issue.
He said employees need to be trained on how to deal with a deadly situation, where exits are located and where to go to shelter in place.
“It’s really a collective security thought process. You are trying to educate people that this person could be a threat,” said Hudson.