OSHA Finder publishes industry statistics, enforcement summaries and safety consulting research. Each article links to its sources and identifies the period and population behind the figures. Use these notes to check the definitions and limits of a figure before reusing it.
Three kinds of evidence
Official statistics and records. BLS injury rates describe a defined population and period. OSHA inspection and citation records describe enforcement activity. They are not interchangeable measures of workplace safety.
Published commercial information. Provider prices and product capabilities are attributed to the business publishing them. A small collection of advertised prices is not a market survey. Product comparisons state the review date and avoid claiming performance we have not measured.
OSHA Finder calculations and interpretation. Arithmetic derived from a source is labeled with its inputs. Worksheets are planning aids, and hypothetical examples are identified as such. No fictional demonstration company is included in a factual industry table.
Dates, definitions and coverage
An article’s publication date can differ from its data year. A 2026 article may use 2024 BLS statistics or an FY2025 OSHA profile. Inspection opening, citation issuance, announcement and observation dates are recorded separately where relevant.
Jurisdiction and industry codes matter. A Federal OSHA profile is not automatically a combined federal-and-state total. A selected manufacturing subsector is not all manufacturing. An inspection count is not a workforce-adjusted injury rate.
If an original page cannot be fetched and an indexed version is used, the article discloses that limitation. A blank source cell is not treated as zero. Source data may later be revised; follow the cited record for its current state.
Authorship and review
Articles are published under the OSHA Finder organization name and prepared with AI assistance. They are checked against the cited material. They have not been reviewed or endorsed by a named safety professional or attorney.
Reusing tables and checking a claim
Download links provide the small source tables or worksheets used in the articles. Keep the reporting year, unit, industry code and source URL with any copied number. For a suspected error, compare those fields first: similarly worded statistics often use different populations.
Substantive corrections should update the article text, downloadable data and visible update date together. Dates should not be changed solely to make an unchanged article appear fresh.
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