Where every number comes from

Primary sources

• BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). Annual industry rates and counts: Table 1, 2024 and Table 2, 2024, plus Table 1 for 2021, 2022, and 2023. News release: Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, 2023–2024 (USDL-26-0101), January 22, 2026.
• BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). Summary, 2024 and Table 3, fatal injuries by selected occupations, 2020–24, released February 19, 2026. Private educational and health services fatalities and rate: BLS CFOI industry chart.
• CDC / NIOSH. CDC Vital Signs, Health Workers Face a Mental Health Crisis (updated October 24, 2023) and NIOSH health-care worker risk factors.
• OSHA. Health-care and worker-rights pages linked throughout, including osha.gov/healthcare and osha.gov/workers.

How to read SOII

Incidence rates are cases per 100 full-time equivalent workers, calculated as (N/EH) × 200,000, where 200,000 hours equals 100 people working 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. Case counts in Table 2 are published in thousands. Estimates are rounded; BLS determines significance from unrounded data.

SOII is a survey of employer records kept under OSHA recordkeeping rules. It does not include every workplace, every worker, or every incident. Self-employed people, some small farms, and some conditions that workers never report to an employer are outside its scope or undercounted. Mental-health conditions such as burnout are generally not what the 300 log was built to count; that is why burnout figures on this site come from a CDC survey and are labeled separately.

Case and demographic detail (including many occupation and event rates) is now published for two-year periods. The 2023–2024 detail uses OIICS version 3, a classification break from earlier years. This site does not compare event codes across that break as if they were the same series.

Fatal injuries, in context

CFOI counted 5,070 fatal work injuries in the United States in 2024, a rate of 3.3 per 100,000 full-time workers. Private educational and health services recorded 160 of those deaths, at a rate of 0.7 per 100,000 — much lower than high-fatality industries such as construction or agriculture. Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations had 53 fatal injuries in 2024; healthcare support occupations had 26. Health care’s heavier official burden is in nonfatal injuries and illnesses, not in fatal-injury rates. CFOI excludes most illness-related deaths.

Source: BLS CFOI 2024 summary and Table 3; BLS CFOI industry chart, 2024.

What we do not do

• We do not invent missing numbers or fill a dash in a BLS table.
• We do not present this site’s commentary as official agency guidance.
• We do not publish our own projections. If a future page ever quotes someone else’s projection, it will be labeled and kept apart from recorded data.
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