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| "name": "US OSHA Recordable Rates by Industry 2026", |
| "description": "TRIR, DART, days-away-from-work rate, vs-average-percentage, fatal injury rate, and top fatal event by NAICS code. Sourced from BLS SOII 2024, BLS CFOI 2024, and OSHA ITA 2024 submissions. Updated annually after the November BLS SOII release.", |
| "publisher": "SmartQHSE Ltd", |
| "publisher_url": "https://www.smartqhse.com", |
| "year": 2026, |
| "source_year": 2024, |
| "sources": [ |
| "BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) 2024 — Table SNR05", |
| "BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) 2024", |
| "OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) submissions 2024" |
| ], |
| "license": "CC BY 4.0", |
| "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", |
| "cite_as": "SmartQHSE Ltd (2026). US OSHA Recordable Rates by Industry 2026 [dataset]. https://www.smartqhse.com/datasets/osha-rates-2026", |
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| "rows": 40, |
| "last_updated": "2026-05-03", |
| "metric_definitions": { |
| "trir": "Total Recordable Incident Rate per 100 FTE (200,000 hours worked). Formula: (recordable cases × 200,000) ÷ hours worked. Defined in OSHA 29 CFR 1904.", |
| "dart": "Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred rate per 100 FTE. Subset of TRIR for the more severe cases. Used by OSHA SVEP (Severe Violator Enforcement Program) targeting.", |
| "dafw": "Days Away From Work only rate per 100 FTE. Subset of DART excluding restricted-duty and job-transfer cases.", |
| "vs_avg_pct": "Percentage difference vs all-private-industry average TRIR (2.7). Negative = below average. Positive = above average.", |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": "Fatal injuries per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers. Source: BLS CFOI. Null where the data is not separately broken out." |
| } |
| }, |
| "data": [ |
| { |
| "naics": "—", |
| "industry": "All private industry (US average)", |
| "trir": 2.7, |
| "dart": 1.7, |
| "dafw": 0.9, |
| "vs_avg_pct": null, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": 3.7, |
| "top_fatal_event": "Transportation incidents (39%)" |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "11", |
| "industry": "Agriculture, forestry, fishing", |
| "trir": 5.2, |
| "dart": 3, |
| "dafw": 1.7, |
| "vs_avg_pct": 93, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": 21.9, |
| "top_fatal_event": "Transportation incidents" |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "211", |
| "industry": "Oil & gas extraction", |
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| "dart": 0.9, |
| "dafw": 0.5, |
| "vs_avg_pct": -48, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": 14, |
| "top_fatal_event": "Transportation + struck-by" |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "213111", |
| "industry": "Drilling oil & gas wells", |
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| "vs_avg_pct": -37, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": 11.2, |
| "top_fatal_event": "Struck-by + caught-in" |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "213112", |
| "industry": "Support activities for oil & gas operations", |
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| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "22", |
| "industry": "Utilities", |
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| "dafw": 0.2, |
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| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": 5.6, |
| "top_fatal_event": "Electrocution + falls" |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "23", |
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| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": 9.4, |
| "top_fatal_event": "Falls (Focus Four #1)" |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "236", |
| "industry": "Construction of buildings", |
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| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "237", |
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| "vs_avg_pct": -22, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "238", |
| "industry": "Specialty trade contractors", |
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| "dart": 1.6, |
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| "vs_avg_pct": 0, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "31-33", |
| "industry": "Manufacturing (overall)", |
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| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": 2.5, |
| "top_fatal_event": "Caught-in / contact with object" |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "311", |
| "industry": "Food manufacturing", |
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| "dafw": 1.4, |
| "vs_avg_pct": 56, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "322", |
| "industry": "Paper manufacturing", |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "324", |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "325", |
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| "dafw": 0.4, |
| "vs_avg_pct": -37, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "326", |
| "industry": "Plastics & rubber products", |
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| "dart": 2, |
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| "vs_avg_pct": 30, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "331", |
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| "vs_avg_pct": 26, |
| "fatal_rate_per_100k_fte": null, |
| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "332", |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "333", |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "336", |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "42", |
| "industry": "Wholesale trade", |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "44-45", |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "48-49", |
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| }, |
| { |
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| }, |
| { |
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| "top_fatal_event": null |
| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "486", |
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| }, |
| { |
| "naics": "493", |
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| }, |
| { |
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| }, |
| { |
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| }, |
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| "naics": "6233", |
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| }, |
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| }, |
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| }, |
| { |
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| }, |
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| } |
| ] |
| } |
