Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses — 2023 — 2024-11-08

Private industry employers reported 2.6 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2023, down 8.4 percent from 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This decrease was driven by a 56.6-percent drop in illnesses to 200,100 cases in 2023, the lowest number since 2019. (See chart 1.) This was due to a 72.6-percent decrease in respiratory illness cases, down to 100,200 cases in 2023. (See chart 2.) These estimates are from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). In 2023, the incidence rate of total recordable cases (TRC) in private industry was 2.4 cases per 100 full- time equivalent (FTE) workers, down from 2.7 in 2022. This was the lowest TRC rate for this data series going back to 2003. Injuries occurred at a rate of 2.2 cases per 100 FTE workers, down from 2.3 in 2022.