New OSHA database provides look at severe injuries in home health

Effective Sep 17, 2024

Published Sep 17, 2024

Last Reviewed Sep 17, 2024

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a new severe injury report that offers a deep dive into injury data for home health care.

Results for home health care services (NAICS 621610) shows 231 severe injuries between 2015 and January 2024.

The top five events and exposures were reported as:

Falls on same level due to slipping: 47
Other fall to lower level, unspecified: 21
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object: 20
Fall on same level, unspecified: 20
Other fall to lower level less than six feet: 10

You can see state breakdowns and more data at https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports.

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