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Are OSHA injury and inspection reports public record? Yes — and how to search them
Federal OSHA severe-injury reports, Form 300/301 injury filings, and inspection records are public. Here’s what’s disclosed, what’s redacted, and how to look up any employer’s OSHA safety history for free.
Yes. Federal OSHA workplace injury and inspection records are public. Employers report serious injuries to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and OSHA releases that information as open government data — no login, no FOIA request, and no fee required to read it. Safety Incidents indexes these federal datasets so you can look up any employer’s safety history by name. This page explains exactly what is disclosed, what is withheld, and how to search it.
Are OSHA severe injury reports public record?
Yes. Since January 1, 2015, employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction have been required to report every work-related hospitalization, amputation, and loss of an eye — typically within 24 hours. OSHA compiles these into the Severe Injury Report (SIR) dataset and publishes it. We currently index 105,313 severe injury reports through October 31, 2025, covering 71,083 employers. Each report includes the employer, the date, the body part affected, the event that caused the injury, the industry, and the location.
Are OSHA inspection and injury-filing records public?
Yes. Two more federal datasets are public alongside severe injury reports:
- Form 300/301 injury filings. Larger establishments electronically submit their injury-and-illness logs to OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application. OSHA publishes this data too — we index 2,042,423 filings through December 31, 2025 across 130,778 establishments.
- Inspections and citations. Every OSHA inspection, and any citation issued from it, is an enforcement record OSHA makes public through its establishment search and the Department of Labor’s enforcement data. We are actively backfilling the historical inspection archive.
What OSHA data is not public?
The injured worker’s identity is withheld. Personally identifying details — names, home addresses, and similar fields — are redacted from the public injury files. The public record describes the employer and the incident (what happened, to which body part, in which industry and location), not the individual worker. So you can research a company’s safety record, but not a specific person’s medical details.
How do I look up a company’s OSHA record?
Search the employer by name. Our search page matches across all three federal datasets at once and returns a single safety-record profile per employer — severe injuries, Form 300/301 filings, and inspections together, with every underlying record linked. You can also filter by hazard, equipment, body part, state, or industry. If you only have a street address or city, that often works too, because the records carry the incident location.
How current is the data, and where does it come from?
Every record here comes directly from federal OSHA / U.S. Department of Labor open datasets — we do not editorialize the underlying numbers. Severe injury reports currently run through October 31, 2025 and Form 300/301 filings through December 31, 2025; inspection records are refreshed continuously. One caveat worth knowing: these are federal OSHA records. Some states operate their own OSHA-approved safety plans and report separately, which leaves gaps in the federal severe-injury data — we cover that in detail in the state coverage-gap analysis.
Is it free to search?
Yes — Safety Incidents is a free, public index of federal OSHA workplace-safety records. There is no account to create and no paywall. Start with a company name.