Federal Employee Suicides Reach a New Record

FedSmith reports:

Most people don’t believe that Federal employment is dangerous work, and statistics back this up with one glaring exception.

While the job-related fatality rate for Federal workers is less than half the rate in private industry, suicides are increasingly becoming the reported cause of Federal employees’ deaths.


New data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics over this past holiday season show that Federal employee suicides are at their highest level as measured by records going back 15 years, with suicides accounting for 28% of the 124 Federal employee job-related deaths in 2018.

A sad story.