Work-Related Slayings

The killing of three workers and the wounding of two others at the Extron Electronics plant in Santa Fe Springs was the latest in a series of job-related killings in California in recent years. Here are workplace slayings recorded in 1993:

* Feb. 2: A La Habra janitor, enraged over a late $150 paycheck, poured gasoline on a bookkeeper and set her afire, then walked away as the woman was fatally burned.

* May 6: A former postal worker, after stabbing his mother to death, walked into the Dana Point post office and killed a former co-worker. Five other people were wounded in a bloody two-day rampage. He had been fired for stalking a female co-worker.

* July 2: A mortgage broker, blaming a law firm for his financial trouble, rampaged through three floors of a San Francisco high-rise. He killed eight people and wounded six others before killing himself as police moved in.

* July 8: A onetime ranch hand who was said to have a hot temper and a personal grudge against some of his family members shot down his sister-in-law and another employee at a Fountain Valley embroidery store.

* Dec. 3: Angered by chronic unemployment, a former Northrop Corp. computer systems engineer began shooting in an Oxnard unemployment office, killing four people before being shot and killed by police.