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Construction severe injuries: 18,918 OSHA reports, more than any other sector
Construction accounts for 18,918 federal OSHA severe-injury reports since 2015 — the largest of any industry sector. 16,904 were hospitalizations, 2,907 amputations, and 2,835 involved falls. The state and hazard breakdown.
Construction produces more severe injuries than any other industry sector in the federal OSHA archive. Employers in NAICS sector 23 have filed 18,918 severe-injury reports since 2015 — about 18% of the entire 105,313-report archive, and more than food, warehousing, or any manufacturing sector.
Falls are the signature hazard
16,904 of the sector's reports (89%) resulted in a hospitalization. 2,835 involved a fall or slip — more than a quarter of every fall-related severe injury in the archive comes from construction alone. Another 2,907 were amputations, a 15% share that runs below the archive-wide 26% because falls, struck-by, and crushing — not blades — dominate the trade.
Where construction injuries concentrate
Texas and Florida lead by a wide margin. California, the largest construction market in the country, records just 50 — it runs its own state plan (Cal/OSHA), so its reports flow outside this federal dataset. Each count opens the live records.
| State | Construction severe injuries |
|---|---|
| Texas | 3,716 |
| Florida | 3,317 |
| New York | 1,144 |
| Georgia | 890 |
| California · state-plan | 50 |
Browse all 18,918 construction severe-injury records, the fall-injury deep dive, or the full sector ranking.
Method & source
All counts are live queries against the federal OSHA Severe Injury Report archive (events dated 2015-01-01 through 2025-10-31) indexed by Safety Incidents, which holds 105,313 reports. Sector figures count reports whose primary NAICS begins with 23 (construction); hazard subsets use the fall/amputation filters and overlap with the hospitalization count, since one injury can carry more than one code. Reproduce any figure by applying the same filters on the search page. Severe-injury reporting has been mandatory for most employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction since January 2015; the 22 states running their own OSHA-approved plans report separately and are under-represented here — see the 22-state blind spot.