Occupational Safety and Health Statistics

Injuries and Illnesses

Oregon

• 2006 Oregon Occupational Injury and Illness Survey Summary (PDF)
  http://www.cbs.state.or.us/imd/rasums/2081/06web/06_2081.pdf (OR DCBS)
  >  Oregon workers employed in the private sector during calendar year 2006 suffered work-related injuries and illnesses at a rate of 5.3 for every 100 full-time employees.

• Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Statistics
  http://www.cbs.state.or.us/external/osha/standards/statistics.html (OR DCBS)
  >  Reports on OR-OSHA safety and health inspections and consultative services program, standards violated, compliance officer performance, summaries of injury and illness data by industry, and Oregon data from the BLS Occupational Safety and Health Survey.

Regional & National

• Added Feb Interactive Map: Injury Prevention in the United States
  http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/newsroom-content/2013/01/interactive-the-facts-hurt.html?cid=xsh_rwjf_tw (RWJ Foundation)
  >  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides state-by-state injury death rates. Learn how states score on 10 key indicators of steps they can take to prevent injuries.

• NIOSH Science Blog: State-based Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance
  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/blog/nsb083010_surveillance.html (NIOSH)
  >  This month's science blog discusses the state-based occupational safety and health surveillance program and addresses recommendations to strengthen it.

• U.S. Department of Labor Strategic Plan for 2010-2016
  http://www.dol.gov/_sec/stratplan/ (OSHA)
  >  This site provides information about the newly adopted DOL Strategic Plan and includes access to replays of live web chats related to the plan.

• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in OSHA Region 10: Safety and Health Surveillance Indicators 2000-2005
  http://depts.washington.edu/nwcohs/region10Report.html (Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety)
  >  This report, prepared by the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety, describes the Region 10 working population and the workplace injury and illness experience through existing data sources. Statistics include work-related injury and illness, hospitalizations, amputations, fatalities, and other health and safety indicators. Distributions of workers by race, gender, occupation, industry, part-time work and unemployment are also included.

• 2008 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index
  http://www.libertymutualgroup.com/omapps/ContentServer?cid=1138365240689&pagename=LMGResearchInstitute%2Fcms_document%2FShowDoc&c=cms_document (Liberty Mutual Group)
  >  Produced annually, by Liberty Mutual Group, the Workplace Safety Index identifies the leading causes of the most disabling U.S. workplace injuries based on data reported from 1998 (the baseline year for Workplace Safety Index data) through the most recent year for which data are available – in this case 2006.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Requiring Days Away From Work, 2006 (PDF)
  http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/osh2.pdf (BLS)
  >  Both the rate and the number of occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work decreased from 2005 to 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department Labor.

• NIOSH Worker Notification Program
  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pgms/worknotify/ (NIOSH)
  >  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is a federal agency mandated to conduct research to prevent illnesses and injuries in the workplace. NIOSH notifies workers and other stakeholders about the findings of these research studies. The tables below are indexes to the notification materials listed by type of work exposure and the industry group. Click on any of the links to get information about the worker notification.

• The Collaborative on Health and the Environment Cancer Working Group: Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer
  http://www.healthandenvironment.org/working_groups/cancer (CHE)
  >  The Collaborative on Health and the Environment announces the release of a study initiated by CHE’s Cancer Working Group to summarize scientific evidence documenting associations between environmental and occupational exposures and certain cancers in the United States.

• Work-Related Lung Disease (WoRLD) Surveillance System
  http://www2.cdc.gov/drds/WorldReportData/ (NIOSH)
  >  The Work-Related Lung Disease (WoRLD) Surveillance Report is an ongoing project produced by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). It presents up-to-date summary tables, graphs, and figures of occupationally-related respiratory disease surveillance data on the pneumoconioses, occupational asthma and other airways diseases, and several other respiratory conditions. For many of these diseases, selected data on related exposures are also presented.

• NIOSH Worker Health Chartbook
  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/chartbook/ (NIOSH)
  >  The Worker Health Chartbook, 2004 is a descriptive epidemiologic reference on occupational morbidity and mortality in the United States.

• Statistics & Data: Inspection Data and Workplace Statistics
  http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/index.html (OSHA)

• Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program, Bureau of Labor Statistics
  http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm (BLS)
  >  The Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program provides data on illnesses and injuries on the job and data on worker fatalities.