Research—
Transportation & warehousing: 9,329 severe injuries as the logistics economy scaled
Transportation and warehousing employers filed 9,329 federal OSHA severe-injury reports since 2015 — 4,608 of them from the warehousing, courier, and postal cluster alone. Forklifts, docks, and conveyors drive the harm. The breakdown.
The decade that severe-injury reporting has covered is the decade the logistics economy exploded, and the injury data tracks it. Transportation and warehousing (NAICS sector 48-49) accounts for 9,329 federal OSHA severe-injury reports since 2015 — 4,721 from transportation (trucking, transit, air, rail) and 4,608 from the warehousing, courier, and postal cluster (NAICS 49) that includes fulfillment and last-mile delivery.
Struck-by and caught-in, not amputation
In the warehousing/courier cluster, 628 reports (14%) are amputations — below the 26% archive-wide rate. The signature harm is struck-by and caught-between: workers pinned by forklifts and powered trucks, injured at loading docks and trailers, or caught in conveyors, plus overexertion from repetitive lifting. Forklifts alone account for thousands of severe injuries across all industries — see the forklift severe-injury breakdown.
Where the warehousing cluster's injuries concentrate
Each count opens the live records.
| State | Warehousing/courier severe injuries |
|---|---|
| Texas | 633 |
| Georgia | 331 |
| Illinois | 322 |
| California · state-plan | 118 |
Browse the 4,608 warehousing/courier records or the 4,721 transportation records, or see 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, of which 27,770 (about 26%) are amputations. Transportation is NAICS prefix 48; the warehousing, courier, and postal cluster is prefix 49 — the search sector filter groups by two-digit prefix. The amputation share is of the 4,608 sector-49 reports. Reproduce any figure by applying the same filters on the search page. Reporting has been mandatory 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.