OSHA Releases Employer Injury Data
January 26th, 2010
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Labor made six datasets publicly available. The datasets released include information from the OSHA, which will make it possible for anyone in the public to track injury statistics in the American workplace. This is all part of the Federal Government’s “transparency” initiative.
Aside from the six datasets released yesterday, a few months ago OSHA made available a dataset to report weekly fatalities and catastrophes as reported by its area offices.
The OSHA dataset released yesterday by OSHA is the — Establishment Specific Injury and Illness Rates http://www.data.gov/details/1461 Also see on OSHA’s Web site at http://www.osha.gov/pls/odi/establishment_search.html
Each year, OSHA collects work-related injury and illness data from employers within specific industry and employment size specifications. This data collection is known as the OSHA Data Initiative or ODI. The data are used by OSHA to calculate establishment specific injury and illness incidence rates. Then helps them target their inspection activities. Data from 1996 to 2007 are now searchable online. So now you can search establishment’s reported injury and illness data.
Now I am not sure how this makes our Government more transparent but if you are the owner or senior leadership of the establishments listed, you just got more transparent.
