The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has produced a "year one" impact-evaluation report on its Severe Injury Reporting Program.
Effective January 1, 2015, U.S. employers have been required to report to OSHA within 24 hours of any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of eye.
OSHA reports that it received 7,636 "hospitalization reports" in 2015. The manufacturing industry was responsible for 26% of the hospitalization reports, while 19% were from construction, 11% from transportation and warehousing, 8% from retail trade, 6% from "administrative and support and waste management and remediation services", 6% from health care and social assistance, 5% from wholesale trade, 3% from oil and gas extraction and 16% from other industries.
Fully 57% of "amputation reports" came from manufacturing, with 10% from construction.
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