Reader's guide—For journalists & researchers
Free to search, free to cite, linked to the source.
Public records, kept queryable: 105,313 severe-injury reports, 2,004,209 OSHA inspections, and fatality investigations back to 1972 — every record carries a link to the official federal OSHA source for verification.
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Research notes →
Published analyses — worst states, sectors, and years by severe injuries — with methodology and source counts.
Recent workplace fatalities →
Federal OSHA fatality and catastrophe investigation summaries as they publish, with an RSS feed.
Rankings by industry →
Every NAICS sector ranked by severe injuries — the worst-actor patterns, pre-aggregated.
Rankings by state →
State-by-state severe injuries, inspections, and fatalities, with the federal vs. State-Plan coverage caveat stated.
Incidents by hazard →
Forklift, falls, heat, chemical — narrative-rich incident sets around a single hazard.
Guide: what each OSHA record is →
SIR vs. Form 300/301 vs. inspections vs. FAT/CAT — the distinctions that keep a story accurate.
Worth knowing
Everything here is free — these are public-domain records of a US federal agency. Cite pages directly; each record links to its official OSHA source for verification. Data covers federal OSHA jurisdiction; about 22 State-Plan states report severe injuries separately.
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