For warehousing and storage, BLS reports 4.8 total recordable injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers in 2024. That is an industry rate, not a count of OSHA violations or a measure of one warehouse's performance.
Which year do the latest warehouse figures cover?
As checked September 10, 2026, the BLS industry page displays 2024 injury rates. Its separate fatality table reports 32 fatalities in 2024, compared with 28 in 2023, for warehousing and storage (NAICS 493). Do not label the broader transportation-and-warehousing sector as warehouses alone.
BLS injury and illness rates
| Measure | 2024 rate per 100 full-time workers |
|---|---|
| Total recordable cases | 4.8 |
| Cases with days away, restriction or transfer (DART) | 4.1 |
| Cases involving days away | 1.5 |
| Cases involving job transfer or restriction | 2.6 |
Source: BLS Warehousing and Storage, NAICS 493, read September 10, 2026. The injury table covers 2024 even though the same page contains newer employment series. Its fatality series has a classification break beginning in 2023; blank entries should not be treated as zero.
Download the injury-rate table.
A separate look at warehouse citations
In the search-indexed Federal OSHA profile for general warehousing and storage, NAICS 49311, all establishment sizes, powered industrial trucks led the displayed citation list for October 2024–September 2025.
| Standard | Short topic label | Citations in that profile |
|---|---|---|
| 1910.178 | Powered industrial trucks | 169 |
| 1910.1200 | Hazard communication | 65 |
| 1910.37 | Exit-route maintenance and safeguards | 39 |
The OSHA profile lists 615 citations overall. These are citation counts from a narrower industry classification and a different period than the BLS table. Direct page retrieval was unavailable; the indexed snapshot was reviewed September 10, 2026.
Which number belongs in your report?
Use the BLS rate when the question is about reported injury and illness experience in the defined industry. Use the OSHA profile when the question is which standards appear in the enforcement records selected by the query. Use an individual inspection when researching a specific establishment.
Do not divide the OSHA citation total by a BLS employment number and label the result a warehouse injury rate. The two sources count different events and cover different populations. A warehouse can also appear in an inspection dataset without that inspection being an injury investigation.
Record five fields next to each statistic in a comparison sheet: measure, unit, industry code, period and source. Add a sixth field for jurisdiction when using enforcement data. These fields show whether the figures cover compatible populations and periods.
Reading the DART figure
DART is useful when the question involves cases with work disruption, but it should not be added to total recordable cases. It is already a subset of that broader measure. Similarly, do not turn 4.8 cases per 100 full-time workers into a statement that 4.8% of individual workers were injured: cases and people are not interchangeable units.
If you are preparing a trend, check the same measure across compatible years. A more recent publication date does not necessarily mean a newer observation year. Keep the observation year beside each figure, even when the article was published later.
From industry data to company research
Industry figures describe conditions across the defined sector. They cannot determine whether a particular warehouse is unsafe or looking for a consultant. Company-level research requires the actual record and current business context.
Read the manufacturing citation comparison for another sector, or see what OSHA Finder covers before using inspection activity in prospect research.
How does warehousing compare with other industries?
The same 2024 total-recordable-case measure is 2.2 for construction and 2.7 for manufacturing. See the industry comparison and sources before drawing conclusions from the difference. These are broad industry figures, not a ranking of individual employers.