OSHA releases detailed data on 2023 injuries and illnesses

Washington — OSHA has published “comprehensive data” on nearly 900,000 work-related injuries and illnesses from 2023.

The data, which comes from more than 91,000 workplaces, includes details on the conditions and circumstances for each injury or illness. Among them:

• Name of the employer
• Location of incidents
• Injury or illness descriptions
• Workers’ activities before incidents occurred
• Events that caused the harm
• Types of injuries or illnesses
• Objects or substances involved

To protect the privacy of the workers involved, the agency says it used artificial intelligence and human review to redact personally identifiable information such as names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, birthdates and addresses.

“Publication of this data is a milestone in our efforts to make data on workplace injuries and illnesses more transparent,” OSHA administrator Doug Parker said in a Dec. 12 press release. “This information is an unprecedented tool for researchers, public health officials, businesses and workers to understand the nature of workplace injuries and illnesses in this country, whether they are looking at national trends or the factory where they work every day.”

A day earlier, OSHA released a video about its Injury Tracking Application, which employers use each year to submit injury and illness data.