OSHA’s 2024 ITA Data: What the Latest Injury and Illness Filings Reveal

December 3, 2025

The 2024 Injury Tracking Application (ITA) cycle marked a pivotal year for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordkeeping and analytics. With expanded electronic reporting now yielding richer case-level detail for many large establishments in high-hazard industries, the public ITA data offers a sharper view of where incidents cluster, what types of cases are driving days away or restrictions, and how enforcement is being targeted.

This data, only recently released, highlights the criticality of employers accurately documenting workplace injuries and illnesses, and being mindful that these descriptions are being used by OSHA in a way that makes them publicly accessible. Employers were required to submit injury and illness data for 2024 by March 2, 2025.

Quick Hits

• OSHA’s 2024 Injury Tracking Application (ITA) cycle expanded electronic reporting, providing richer case-level detail for large establishments in high-hazard industries, enhancing OSHA’s ability to target inspections and enforcement.

• Healthcare, transportation/warehousing, manufacturing, and retail trade continued to report the highest volumes of recordable cases, with construction also showing high rates of severe outcomes.

• OSHA’s enforcement focus remains on recordkeeping compliance, with targeted inspections in high-hazard sectors based on detailed ITA data.

Developments and Trend Lines in the 2024 Data—and Why They Matter

OSHA’s expanded electronic reporting rule requires certain establishments with one hundred or more employees in designated high‑hazard industries to submit case-level information from Forms 300 and 301, in addition to Form 300A summaries (employers with 20-249 employees in certain high-hazard industries must also submit that data electronically). Practically, that means the 2024 public posting includes broader, more detailed insights into “what happened,” “to whom,” and “how severe,” not just topline totals. For safety leaders, this shift turns the ITA into a more actionable, hazard-specific dataset—and for OSHA, a more precise targeting engine for inspections, outreach, and recordkeeping enforcement.

Several realities remain unchanged. ITA submissions cover only establishments meeting industry/size triggers; NAICS coding and some inputs are self-determined and self-reported; and both under- and over-reporting are possible.

Industries With the Most Reported Incidents

The sectoral picture presented in the 2024 data appears remarkably stable. Four industries continued to report the highest volumes of recordable cases in the public ITA data: health care and social assistance, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, and retail trade.

Construction remained a top hazard sector, with fewer total recordables than the four above but disproportionately high rates of severe outcomes, such as falls and struck-by/caught-in events.

Wholesale trade, public administration, and accommodation/food services also contributed sizable case totals, consistent with recent years.

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