2019 Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses — 2020-11-04

Private industry employers reported 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2019, unchanged from 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. These estimates are from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). In 2019, the incidence rate of total recordable cases (TRC) in private industry was 2.8 cases per 100 full- time equivalent (FTE) workers, which was the rate reported in 2018 and 2017. (See chart 1.) The incidence rate of days away from work (DAFW) cases was 0.9 cases per 100 FTE workers and the incidence rate of days of job transfer and restriction only (DJTR) cases was 0.7 cases per 100 FTE workers, which were the rates reported in 2018. (See chart 2.) There were 888,220 nonfatal injuries and illnesses that caused a private industry worker to miss at least one day of work in 2019, essentially unchanged from 2018.