Workplace Statistics (2026): 64 Sourced Figures

This page collects figures on the workplace itself: who is hurt or killed at work, how long people work, which discrimination and harassment charges workers file, how safety rules are enforced, and how employees rate their lives. Every number links to the document that first published it. US injury, fatality and time-use figures come from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Enforcement figures come from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Discrimination and harassment figures come from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Great Britain figures come from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), European Union figures from Eurostat, and global figures from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Gallup. For a comparison of the platforms employers use to run internal communications, feedback and the day-to-day employee experience, see the StatWharf comparison of employee experience platforms.

Key figures at a glance

Fatal work injuries in the United States (BLS CFOI)

The BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) counts every fatal work injury in the United States. The 2024 results were published on February 19, 2026. Rates are per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers.

• There were 5,070 fatal work injuries in the United States in 2024, down 4.0% from 5,283 in 2023, per the BLS (2026).
• The US fatal work injury rate was 3.3 per 100,000 FTE workers in 2024, down from 3.5 in 2023, per the BLS (2026).
• A US worker died from a work-related injury every 104 minutes in 2024, per the BLS (2026).
• Transportation incidents caused 38.2% of all US occupational fatalities in 2024, the most frequent type of fatal event, per the BLS (2026).
• Fatal falls, slips and trips at US workplaces fell 4.6% to 844 in 2024, per the BLS (2026).
• Pedestrian incidents involving motor vehicles killed 369 US workers in 2024, up 19.0% from 310 in 2023, per the BLS (2026).
• Violent acts caused 733 US workplace deaths in 2024, of which 470 were homicides and 263 were suicides, per the BLS (2026).
• Drug or alcohol overdoses at work fell to 410 deaths in 2024 from 512 in 2023, per the BLS (2026).
• Women accounted for 8.1% of US worker fatalities but 15.3% of workplace homicide deaths in 2024, per the BLS (2026).
• Transportation and material moving occupations had 1,391 fatal work injuries in 2024, more than any other occupational group, per the BLS (2026).
• The fatality rate for US transportation and material moving workers was 12.5 per 100,000 FTE workers in 2024, per the BLS (2026).
• Construction and extraction workers suffered 1,032 fatal work injuries in the United States in 2024, per the BLS (2026).
• The fatal injury rate for Hispanic or Latino workers was 4.3 per 100,000 FTE workers in 2024, and 68.5% of the 1,229 Hispanic or Latino worker deaths were among foreign-born workers, per the BLS (2026).

Nonfatal injuries and illnesses in the United States (BLS SOII)

The BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) counts injuries and illnesses that private employers record. The 2024 results, with case details for 2023–2024, were published on January 22, 2026.

• US private industry employers reported 2.5 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2024, the lowest count in the series back to 2003, per the BLS (2026).
• The US private industry rate of total recordable cases was 2.3 per 100 FTE workers in 2024, the lowest in the series back to 2003, per the BLS (2026).
• Workplace illness cases in US private industry fell 26.0% to 148,000 in 2024, per the BLS (2026).
• The health care and social assistance sector had a total recordable case rate of 3.4 per 100 FTE workers in 2024, against 0.7 in the information sector, per the BLS (2026).
• US private industry had 1.8 million cases involving days away from work over 2023–2024, with a median of 8 days away, per the BLS (2026).
• Overexertion, repetitive motion and bodily conditions caused 946,290 cases with days away, job transfer or restriction over 2023–2024, more than any other event, per the BLS (2026).

Safety enforcement in the United States (OSHA)

• Federal and state OSHA programs have about 1,850 inspectors for 130 million workers at more than 8 million worksites, about one compliance officer for every 70,000 workers, per OSHA (2026).
• Federal OSHA carried out 34,696 inspections in fiscal year 2024, per OSHA (2026).
• Fall protection, general requirements, in construction was the standard Federal OSHA cited most often in fiscal year 2024, per OSHA (2026).

Hours and time at work (BLS ATUS)

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) asks people what they did on one diary day. The 2025 results were published on June 25, 2026. Figures on where people work are on the remote work statistics page. For a comparison of shift and rota tools, see the StatWharf comparison of employee scheduling software.

• Full-time employed people in the United States worked an average of 8.1 hours on days they worked in 2025, per the BLS (2026).
• Full-time US workers worked 8.5 hours on an average weekday and 5.5 hours on an average weekend day in 2025, per the BLS (2026).
• 81% of employed people in the United States worked on an average weekday in 2025, compared with 30% on an average weekend day, per the BLS (2026).
• On weekend days they worked, US high school graduates with no college worked 6.4 hours, against 4.0 hours for those with a bachelor’s degree or higher, in 2025, per the BLS (2026).
• 38% of employed women in the United States did some or all of their work at home on days worked in 2025, against 31% of employed men, per the BLS (2026).

Discrimination, retaliation and harassment charges (EEOC)

The EEOC publishes charge receipts by basis each fiscal year. Fiscal year 2025 ran from October 2024 to September 2025. A single charge can allege more than one basis, so the shares add up to more than 100%. The total number of new charges and EEOC recoveries are on the HR statistics page.

• Retaliation was alleged in 54,350 EEOC charges in fiscal year 2025, 61.6% of all charges and up from 42,301 in fiscal year 2024, per the EEOC (2026).
• Disability discrimination was alleged in 36,256 EEOC charges, 41.1% of all charges, in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).
• Race discrimination was alleged in 29,338 EEOC charges, 33.3% of all charges, in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).
• Sex discrimination was alleged in 26,941 EEOC charges, 30.5% of all charges, in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).
• Age discrimination was alleged in 16,353 EEOC charges, 18.5% of all charges, in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).
• The EEOC received 3,448 charges under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).
• The EEOC received 37,397 charges alleging harassment in fiscal year 2025, up from 21,270 in fiscal year 2021, per the EEOC (2026).
• EEOC harassment charges produced $261.9 million in monetary benefits outside litigation in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).
• The EEOC received 8,475 Title VII sexual harassment charges in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).
• Men filed 19.6% of Title VII sexual harassment charges with the EEOC in fiscal year 2025, per the EEOC (2026).

Great Britain (HSE)

The HSE publishes fatal injury figures each July from reports made under RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations). The 2025/26 figures are provisional and will be finalized in July 2027. Ill health and nonfatal injury figures come from the HSE summary for 2024/25, published in November 2025. Work-related stress figures are on the burnout statistics page.

• 126 workers were killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in 2025/26, provisionally the lowest count outside the pandemic years, per the HSE (2026).
• That equates to a fatal injury rate of 0.37 deaths per 100,000 workers in Great Britain in 2025/26, per the HSE (2026).
• 93% of workers fatally injured at work in Great Britain in 2025/26 were men, per the HSE (2026).
• Falls from a height caused around a quarter of fatal injuries to workers in Great Britain in 2025/26, the most common kind of fatal accident, per the HSE (2026).
• Workers aged 60 and over accounted for around a third of worker fatalities in Great Britain in 2025/26 but only 12% of the workforce, per the HSE (2026).
• The fatal injury rate in agriculture, forestry and fishing was 21 times the all-industry rate in Great Britain over 2021/22 to 2025/26, per the HSE (2026).
• 104 members of the public were also killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in 2025/26, per the HSE (2026).
• 1.9 million workers in Great Britain suffered from work-related ill health in 2024/25, per the HSE (2025).
• 511,000 workers in Great Britain suffered from a work-related musculoskeletal disorder in 2024/25, per the HSE (2025).
• 0.7 million workers in Great Britain sustained a nonfatal injury at work in 2024/25, per the HSE (2025).
• Employers reported 59,219 nonfatal injuries to employees under RIDDOR in Great Britain in 2024/25, per the HSE (2025).
• Work-related ill health and workplace injury caused 40.1 million lost working days in Great Britain in 2024/25, per the HSE (2025).
• Workplace injury and new cases of work-related ill health cost Great Britain an estimated £22.9 billion in 2023/24, per the HSE (2025).

European Union (Eurostat)

Eurostat collects accidents at work through European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW). Non-fatal accidents are those that cause at least 4 full calendar days of absence. The 2024 data were extracted in September 2026.

• There were 3,367 fatal accidents at work in the EU in 2024, 45 more than in 2023, per Eurostat (2026).
• There were 2.78 million non-fatal accidents at work causing at least 4 days of absence in the EU in 2024, down 1.5%, per Eurostat (2026).
• The EU recorded 826 non-fatal accidents at work for every fatal accident in 2024, per Eurostat (2026).
• Men were involved in 67.2% of non-fatal accidents at work in the EU in 2024, per Eurostat (2026).
• The construction sector accounted for 23.0% of fatal accidents at work in the EU in 2024, per Eurostat (2026).
• The EU had a standardised rate of 2.10 fatal accidents per 100,000 employed people in 2024, with France highest at 4.48, per Eurostat (2026).

Worldwide (ILO)

The ILO published its global estimates on November 26, 2023, in the report A Call for Safer and Healthier Working Environments.

• Nearly 3 million workers die every year from work-related accidents and diseases, up more than 5% on 2015, per the ILO (2023).
• Work-related diseases cause 2.6 million deaths a year and work accidents a further 330,000, per the ILO (2023).
• An estimated 395 million workers worldwide sustain non-fatal work injuries, per the ILO (2023).
• Work-related mortality is 51.4 per 100,000 working-age men, against 17.2 for women, per the ILO (2023).
• Agriculture, construction, forestry and fishing, and manufacturing account for 63% of fatal occupational injuries worldwide, about 200,000 a year, per the ILO (2023).

Wellbeing at work (Gallup)

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report was published in April 2026, with data collected from January to December 2025. Gallup classes respondents as thriving, struggling or suffering from their ratings of their current and future lives. Engagement figures are on the employee engagement statistics page, and daily stress figures on the burnout statistics page.

• 56% of employees worldwide were struggling in their overall lives in 2025, per Gallup (2026).
• 9% of employees worldwide were suffering in their overall lives in 2025, per Gallup (2026).
• 52% of employees worldwide said it was a good time to find a job where they live in 2025, per Gallup (2026).

Method

• Data window. Figures date from 2023 to September 2026. The page prefers the latest release of each series. The ILO estimates (2023) are the most recent global estimates found at the check date.
• Primary sources only. Each figure links to the body that first published it: the BLS, OSHA, the EEOC, the HSE, Eurostat, the ILO and Gallup. BLS figures link to the dated archive copy of each news release. EEOC figures link to the EEOC’s fiscal year 2025 data tables. The Eurostat link is a fixed revision of the article. Statistics aggregators, roundups and vendor blogs that re-quote figures were not used.
• Checks. StatWharf Editorial opened each source in November 2026 and checked that the figure and its date appear there. The BLS site blocks automated requests, so the three BLS releases were read from Internet Archive copies of the same URLs. Gallup daily worry, anger, sadness and loneliness shares were left out because the 2025 values could not be read unambiguously from the Gallup page. EEOC charge totals for fiscal year 2025 are on the HR statistics page and are not repeated.
• No modeling. The page reports published figures only. No value is estimated by StatWharf.
• Measures differ. The BLS SOII counts employer-recorded cases in private industry. The HSE nonfatal injury estimate is self-reported in the Labour Force Survey, while its RIDDOR count is employer-reported. Eurostat counts accidents with at least 4 days of absence, and national reporting systems differ, so low rates in some countries may reflect under-reporting. Comparisons are valid within one source, not across sources.
• Overlap. Union membership and EEOC charge totals are on the HR statistics page. Job tenure, quits and engagement are on the employee engagement statistics page. Telework and office-attendance figures are on the remote work statistics page. Work-related stress figures are on the burnout statistics page. They are not repeated here.

Using these figures

US workplaces recorded 5,070 fatal injuries and 2.5 million employer-reported injuries and illnesses in 2024, both lower than the year before. Transportation incidents remain the leading cause of death at work, and falls the leading cause in Great Britain. Retaliation now appears in more than six in ten EEOC charges, and harassment charges have risen each year since fiscal year 2021. Full-time US employees work about eight hours on the days they work, and three in ten employed people work on an average weekend day. Employers comparing tools for employee communication and feedback can see the StatWharf comparison of employee experience platforms. Other StatWharf data pages are listed in the research directory. Send corrections to any figure to the editorial address below.

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