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Severe workplace injuries reported to OSHA, 2015-2025
Employers have reported 105,313 severe workplace injuries to federal OSHA since the reporting rule took effect in 2015. Reports peaked in 2018, fell in 2020, and have run lower since. About one in four was an amputation.
Since federal rule 29 CFR 1904.39 took effect on January 1, 2015, employers have been required to report every work-related in-patient hospitalization, amputation, and loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. Across the federal record, that adds up to 105,313 severe injuries reported over eleven years.
The yearly counts:
| Year | Severe injuries reported |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 9,818 |
| 2016 | 10,084 |
| 2017 | 10,445 |
| 2018 | 11,156 |
| 2019 | 11,071 |
| 2020 | 8,915 |
| 2021 | 8,703 |
| 2022 | 9,110 |
| 2023 | 8,943 |
| 2024 | 9,034 |
| 2025 | 8,034 (partial) |
The pattern is clear: reports climbed to a peak of 11,156 in 2018, dropped sharply to 8,915 in 2020 as the pandemic shut down large parts of the economy, and have run lower since, in the 8,700 to 9,100 range. (2025 is partial, covering reports through late October.)
Of the 105,313 severe injuries, 27,753 were amputations — about one in four. The remainder are overwhelmingly in-patient hospitalizations, with a smaller number of eye losses.
These are federal-jurisdiction reports only; roughly 22 State-Plan states (including California, Michigan, and Washington) collect severe-injury reports separately and are not all included. Browse the full dataset at /severe-injury-reports.