Severe Injuries

19,690 Amputations and Hospitalizations: What OSHA's Severe Injury Data Reveals

Since 2015, employers have had to report to OSHA within 24 hours every time a worker loses a body part or lands in a hospital bed. Two years of that data — 19,690 reports — draw a precise map of how American workers get maimed, and expose the structural blind spot that hides roughly half of the real total.