Data · Work injuries
Workplace injuries and deaths, by state and industry
How often workers are hurt in each state's industries, and how many die on the job, straight from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Free to use, with the series or table on every value.
What is in this dataset?
How often workers are hurt on the job in each state and industry, and how many die: the nonfatal injury and illness rate per 100 full-time workers for private-industry sectors and detailed industries in the states BLS publishes (Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, 2024), and the number and rate of fatal work injuries in every state and DC, with the major cause and the industry rate (Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2024). Every record carries its BLS series or table. Survey estimates carry a relative standard error and a noise flag; figures BLS does not publish are marked suppressed and never filled in. It is statistics about industries and states, never about a named employer.
Use it to see which industries hurt workers most in a state, how a state's injury rate and fatal-injury rate compare with the nation, and what causes the deaths. Look up a state: each record gives the rate, the count, how precise the estimate is and the year-by-year trend where BLS publishes one. These are rates for whole industries, not for any one workplace, so they do not say whether a particular injury is covered by workers' compensation.
- Records
- 3,512
- Look up by
- 52
- state (or the US)
- Primary source
- 2,942
- Open or withheld
- 570
The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.
Where does the data come from?
Nonfatal rates and case counts are read from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) time series IS by series id: total recordable cases, private industry, by state and industry, with the relative standard error. Fatal injury counts, causes and rates are read from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) state tables. Cells BLS does not publish are recorded as suppressed with no value. Nothing is imputed and no employer is named.
- Period covered
- 2024
- Places
- The whole US and states
- How often we refresh it
- Once a year
- Records read
- October 28, 2026
Official sources
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, by bulk download. Public domain (17 U.S.C. 105); cite BLS as the source.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, by official web pages. Public domain (17 U.S.C. 105).
The sources the records cite most
- BLS SOII: 2,492 records
- BLS CFOI, rates by state and industry, 2024: 663 records
- BLS CFOI, AK 2024 counts: 7 records
- BLS CFOI, AL 2024 counts: 7 records
- BLS CFOI, AR 2024 counts: 7 records
What does a record look like?
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All private industry in the United States: 2.3 recorded injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024, about 2,488,400 cases.
Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: BLS SOII, series ISU00000000031100
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All private industry in Texas: 1.7 recorded injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024, about 172,800 cases.
Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: BLS SOII, series ISU00000000031148
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All private industry in California: 2.9 recorded injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024, about 344,500 cases.
Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: BLS SOII, series ISU00000000031106
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All private industry in Wyoming: 2.5 recorded injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024, about 4,300 cases.
Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: BLS SOII, series ISU00000000031156
The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.
What each of the 16 main columns means
state- US or a two-letter state code (DC included)
kind- soii-industry (nonfatal rate), cfoi-total (fatal injuries in the state), cfoi-industry (fatal rate in an industry) or cfoi-event (fatal injuries by cause)
measure- nonfatal or fatal
level- all, supersector, sector (2-digit NAICS), subsector (3-digit NAICS) or event
naics- NAICS code (2 or 3 digits), a range such as 31-33, or ALL
industry- Industry name, as BLS words it
event- Cause of the fatal injury (cfoi-event records)
year- The reference year
status- P published by BLS; U suppressed (BLS did not publish it)
value- The headline number of the record (see unit); empty when suppressed
unit- What value counts
rate- Injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers (soii-industry) or fatal injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers (cfoi records)
dartRate- Cases with days away from work, job restriction or transfer, per 100 full-time workers
casesThousands- Estimated recordable cases, in thousands (BLS rounds to 100)
rse- Relative standard error of the rate, in percent; 20 or more is flagged as noisy
count2023- The previous year's count (cfoi-total and cfoi-event records)
How do I use it in my own tools?
workinjuries_lookup- For one state (two-letter code, DC included) or US: the nonfatal injury and illness rate for all private industry and for each industry BLS publishes, the number and rate of fatal work injuries, the fatal injuries by cause and the fatal rate by industry, each with its BLS source.
workinjuries_compare- The injury and fatality records for up to 10 states (two-letter codes) or US side by side.
workinjuries_search- Records whose text matches the words given, such as "construction Texas", "nursing" or "transportation incidents", each with its source and a note when the estimate is noisy or suppressed.
How to cite this dataset
You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.
- Version
- 1.0.0, released October 28, 2026
- Every version
- 10.5281/zenodo.23740009 (always points to the newest)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Download the data
- CSV: work-injuries.csv 1793 KB · one row per record (columns in README.txt)
- JSON: work-injuries.json 4563 KB · every record with its sources
Free, no email or login. The files are hosted on this site and Zenodo, a public research archive.
Suggested citation
Probative. (2026). Workplace injuries and fatal work injuries by state and industry (BLS SOII and CFOI) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23740010
Credit line for a chart, table or article
Source: Probative, Workplace injuries and fatal work injuries by state and industry (BLS SOII and CFOI), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23740010, licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Not legal advice. These are survey and census statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, kept for planning. A rate describes a whole industry in a state, not any one employer, and it does not say whether anyone has a workers' compensation claim.
What changed recently?
- 2026-10-28 · 3512 records for 2024: 43 states with nonfatal injury rates, 51 with fatal work injury counts. (source)
- 2026-10-28 · 3512 records for 2024: 43 states with nonfatal injury rates, 51 with fatal work injury counts. (source)
- 2026-10-27 · 3914 records for 2024: 43 states with nonfatal injury rates, 51 with fatal work injury counts. (source)
The full log is in changes.json.
What are the limits?
- The injury rates come from a survey of employers, so each has a sampling error. We show it, and mark a rate as noisy when its relative standard error is high.
- BLS publishes the nonfatal survey for private industry in most states and DC, not all. Some states have no state estimates, and a few stopped years ago.
- A fatal injury count or rate is by the state where the injury happened, not where the worker lives. Small counts are not published, so some industries and causes are blank.
- Rates describe a whole industry in a state. They say nothing about one employer and nothing about whether an injury is covered by workers' compensation.
- The survey counts injuries that employers must record under federal rules. Many injuries are never reported, so it is a floor, not a full count.
- Records older than 550 days since their last check are marked
stalein the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.
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