OSHA Publishes 2024 Workplace Injury and Illness Data

Posted By Steve Alder on Apr 22, 2025

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published the 2024 workplace injury and illness data. The 2024 data was collected from OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA) and includes data from more than 370,000 OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses reports. The data has been augmented with partial data from more than 732,000 OSHA Form 300 Logs of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses and Form 301 Injury and Illness Incident Reports. The remainder of the data is currently being checked to ensure it does not contain any personally identifiable information and will be made public when the review is concluded.

With the exception of certain low-risk industries, employers with more than 10 employees are generally required to maintain a record of serious work-related injuries and illnesses. They include any work-related injury or illness that results in loss of consciousness, days away from work, restricted work, or transfer to another job, and any work-related injury or illness that requires medical treatment beyond first aid. Employers must also log any fatalities and any work-related diagnosed case of cancer, chronic irreversible diseases, fractured or cracked bones or teeth, and punctured eardrums.

Employers must use OSHA’s Form 300 to log work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, and a Form 301 injury and illness report must be completed for each workplace injury and illness. Each year, a summary must be created of the Form 300 log using Form 300A, which shows the total number of cases in each category. Employers are not required to post the injury and illness log in the workplace, but must post the Form 300A summary each year from February to April in a visible location so that employees can see how many injuries, illnesses, and fatalities occurred in the workplace. Records must be maintained by employers for at least 5 years, and copies must be provided, on request, to current or former employees or their representatives. In the event of a serious injury, such as the loss of any eye, amputation, or an injury that requires hospitalization, employers must report the injury within 24 hours and within 8 hours of a fatality in the workplace. Fillable recordkeeping forms are available on this link.

Since January 1, 2024, a final rule has been in effect requiring employers in designated high-hazard industries with 100 or more employees to submit injury and illness information electronically to OSHA using the OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA). Data that must be submitted includes the Form 300 log, Form 301 Injury and Illness Report, and the Form 300A summary.  Certain other establishments are also required to use the ITA to submit data to OSHA electronically, as detailed in the flow chart below:

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OSHA Injury Tracking Application Flowchart. Source: OSHA

After checking the submitted data to remove any personally identifiable information, OSHA makes the data publicly available on its website. By doing so, employees, potential employees, their representatives, customers and potential customers, researchers, and the general public can find out about a company’s workplace safety and health record and make informed decisions about the company, such as if it is safe to work there and whether they should do business with the company. OSHA believes that publishing injury and illness data will help reduce occupational injuries and illnesses.

The published data shows 527,116 reported injury and illness cases in 2024, 500,572 days away from work cases, 410,604 days of job transfer or restriction cases, and 750 workplace fatalities.