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OSHA Severe Injury Reports

Employer reports of amputations, inpatient hospitalizations, and eye losses for building workplace-safety monitors under federal OSHA jurisdiction.

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At a Glance

Difficulty
Intermediate — some data preparation helps
Size
Tiny · 0.001–0.05 GB
Formats
CSV
Access
Download
API Key
Not Required
Provider
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Updates
Monthly
Last Verified
Aug 20, 2026
Source Type
Government source
Data Terms
U.S. Government public data / federal copyright guidance
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From Source to Product Signal

Test a Product Idea in Four Steps

OSHA publishes employer severe-injury reports for amputations, inpatient hospitalizations, and losses of an eye. Start with a downloaded extract of the full SIR file and the first fifty rows. These records cover federal OSHA jurisdiction only and are not a complete injury census.

1

Check the Setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • A notebook environment such as Jupyter or Google Colab
2

Access the Data

  1. 1.Open the Severe Injury Reports dashboard and read the federal-jurisdiction limitation.
  2. 2.Download the full SIR data set and save it as osha_severe_injury_reports.csv beside your notebook.
  3. 3.Inspect establishment, event date, and injury fields before summarizing.
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3

Run the Python Example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install pandas

import pandas as pd

injuries = pd.read_csv("osha_severe_injury_reports.csv", nrows=50)
injuries["retrieved_at_utc"] = pd.Timestamp.now(tz="UTC")
print(injuries.head(20))
4

Test a Useful Signal

Count recent severe injuries in one industry

Test whether SIR rows can power a bounded workplace-safety watch list.

  1. 01Keep event date, NAICS or industry, city, and hospitalization or amputation flags from the extract.
  2. 02Count events in one industry and list establishments with more than one report.
  3. 03Explain that state-plan states are missing and that narratives are not a complete injury census.

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Dataset Details

Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a government source. Last verified 2026-08-20. Temporal coverage: federal OSHA severe-injury reports from 2015-present.

Geography

United States

Formats

CSV

Provider

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Data Terms

U.S. Government public data / federal copyright guidance

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