EMPLOYER-REPORTED WORKPLACE INJURIES AND ILLNESSES – 2023-2024 - BLS
BLS - Report
January 22, 2026
Private industry employers reported 2.5 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2024, down 3.1 percent from 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
This is the lowest number of employer-reported injuries and illnesses for this data series going back to 2003.
The decrease in 2024 was driven by a 26.0-percent drop in illness cases to 148,000, in turn due to a 46.1-percent decrease in
respiratory illness cases to 54,000, the lowest number of cases for each series reported since 2019. (See chart 2.)These estimates are from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII).
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