Workplace Gun Violence Questions Emerge After Murders

The recent murders of two journalists on live television have raised new questions about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s role in protecting workers from gun violence.

Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, who both worked for WDBJ in Roanoke, Va., were shot and killed while working Aug. 26 allegedly by a disgruntled ex-employee of the station. The alleged gunman, Vester Flanagan, killed himself later the same day.

OSHA has no plans to address gun violence or mass shootings in the workplace, an agency spokeswoman told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 27.

In a 1992 letter of interpretation, OSHA wrote that ...