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Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities
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The Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program produces a wide range of information about workplace injuries and illnesses. These data are collected and reported annually through the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI).
For information on nonfatal workplace injury and illness, see the most recently published industry data. See the latest industry incidence rates (OSHA recordable case rates), or calculate a firm's incidence rate by using BLS's incidence rate calculator. More information on calculating incidence rates.
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Total nonfatal work injury and illness rates, private industry
Year
Total recordable cases
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer
Other recordable cases
2017
2.8
1.5
1.3
2018
2.8
1.6
1.3
2019
2.8
1.5
1.2
2020
2.7
1.7
1
2021
2.7
1.7
1.0
Note: Components may not add to totals due to rounding. For more information on case types, please see our Handbook of Methods concepts page: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/soii/concepts.htm.
Latest Numbers
Nonfatal injuries and illnesses, private industry
Total recordable cases:
2,607,900 in 2021
Cases involving days away from work:
1,062,700 in 2021
Median days away from work:
12 in 2020
Cases involving sprains, strains, tears:
266,530 in 2020
Cases involving injuries to the back:
128,220 in 2020
Cases involving falls, slips, trips:
211,640 in 2020
Fatal work-related injuries
Total fatal injuries (all sectors):
5,190 in 2021
Roadway incidents (all sectors):
1,253 in 2021
Falls, slips, trips (all sectors):
850 in 2021
Homicides (all sectors):
481 in 2021
Historical Data
News Release
News Releases
Total of 5,190 fatal work injuries in 2021, up 8.9% from 2020
12/16/2022
There were 5,190 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2021, an 8.9-percent increase from 4,764 in 2020. The fatal work injury rate was 3.6 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, up from 3.4 per 100,000 FTE in 2020.
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Employers report 2.6 million injury and illness cases in 2021, down 1.8% from 2020
11/09/2022
In 2021, employers reported 2.6 million injury and illness cases in private industry, down 1.8 percent from 2020. Injury cases increased by 6.3 percent to 2.2 million in 2021, while illness cases decreased by 32.9 percent to 365,200 cases in 2021.
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Next Release
The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2021 are scheduled to be released on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 10:00 A.M. Eastern Time.
Publications
The Economics Daily
Women accounted for 70.8 percent of workplace illnesses caused by viruses in 2020
Women accounted for 70.8 percent of the 390,020 reported workplace illness cases caused by “other diseases due to viruses, not elsewhere classified” in private establishments in 2020. This category includes COVID-19 cases. read more »
Spotlight on Statistics
Workplace Injuries and Job Requirements for Construction Laborers
In 2020, fatalities caused by falls, slips, and trips accounted for 35.3 percent, (345 of 976) of the fatalities within construction and extraction occupations. Workers in construction and extraction occupations experienced 21,400 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses due to falls, slips, and trips. Of the 345 construction occupation fatalities from falls, 96 were experienced by construction laborers alone. read more »
Monthly Labor Review
Challenges in calculating occupational fatality rates
This article explores the challenges associated with calculating occupational fatality rates in three high-risk occupations: firefighters, young farm workers, and police officers. read more »
Beyond the Numbers
Understanding latency in fatal occupational injuries
In 2019, 5,333 people died as a result of injuries that occurred at work. Although some fatal injuries result in death on the same day, there are a substantial number of cases that have some latency, or delay between the date of injury and the date of death. This Beyond the Numbers article presents information on these latent cases. read more »
