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PCCA Journal|1

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Quarter 2010

39

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very year since 1996 the Oc-

cupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA) has col-

lected work-related injury and

illness data from more than 80,000

employers. For the first time, the

agency has made the data from 1996

to 2007 available in a searchable

online database, allowing the public

to look at establishment or industry-

specific injury and illness data. The

workplace injury and illness data is

available at www.osha.gov/pls/odi/

establishment_search.html as well as

data.gov.

OSHA uses the data to calculate

injury and illness incidence rates to

guide its strategic management plan

and to focus its Site Specific Target-

ing Program, which the agency uses

to target its inspections.

“Making injury and illness in-

formation available to the public

is part of OSHA’s response to the

administration’s commitment to

make government more transparent

to the American people,” said David

Michaels, assistant secretary of labor

for OSHA. “This effort will improve

the public’s accessibility to work-

place safety and health data and

ensure the agency can function more

effectively for American workers.”

Information available at the web-

sites includes an establishment’s

name, address, industry, associated

Total Case Rate, Days Away, Restrict-

ed, Transfer case rate, and the Days

Away From Work case rate. The

data is specific to the establishments

that provided OSHA with valid data

through the 2008 data collection.

The database does not contain rates

calculated by OSHA for establish-

ments that submitted suspect or

unreliable data.

An OSHA press release said that

data.gov provides expanded public

access to valuable workforce-related

data generated by the Executive

Branch of the federal government.

Although the initial launch of data.

gov provides a limited portion of the

rich variety of federal datasets pres-

ently available, the public is invited

to participate in shaping the future

of the site by suggesting additional

datasets and site enhancements to

provide seamless public access and

use of federal data.

OSHA Releases Workplace

Injury and Illness Information

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