OSHA Touts Lower 2023 Injury, Illness, Fatality Rates As Enforcement Wins

OSHA is touting recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showing decreases in nonfatal injury and illness rates in 2023 as well as its own findings of a decline in fatal injuries that year as evidence its enforcement programs and collaboration with labor and industry are succeeding -- even as the incoming Trump administration could soon upend those policies. In analyses unveiled last week, BLS recorded 2.6 million private industry nonfatal injuries and illnesses last year, down 8.4 percent from...