TABLE 1. Severe injury reports* submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration by oil and gas extraction industry employers, by subindustry and year (N = 2,101) — United States, January 2015–July 2022.
| Employer/Subindustry | Year |
Total (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022† | ||
|
Contractors§
| |||||||||
|
Oil and gas subindustry support activities personnel¶
| |||||||||
|
Total severe injury reports
|
224
|
162
|
248
|
276
|
267
|
106
|
110
|
80
|
1,473 (70.1)
|
| Hospitalization |
180 |
134 |
196 |
226 |
213 |
90 |
91 |
64 |
1,194 (56.8)
|
| Amputation |
59 |
43 |
72 |
73 |
81 |
28 |
36 |
25 |
417 (19.8)
|
| Eye injury |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
19 (0.9)
|
|
Oil and gas well drillers**
| |||||||||
|
Total severe injury reports
|
71
|
54
|
102
|
95
|
68
|
29
|
37
|
35
|
491 (23.4)
|
| Hospitalization |
50 |
46 |
83 |
71 |
52 |
23 |
26 |
24 |
375 (17.8)
|
| Amputation |
28 |
10 |
30 |
40 |
21 |
7 |
15 |
12 |
163 (7.8)
|
| Eye injury |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 (0.1)
|
|
Operators†† in crude petroleum and natural gas extraction§§ and natural gas extraction¶¶
| |||||||||
|
Total severe injury reports
|
30
|
13
|
25
|
24
|
23
|
9
|
6
|
7
|
137 (6.5)
|
| Hospitalization |
22 |
9 |
23 |
18 |
17 |
8 |
6 |
7 |
110 (5.2)
|
| Amputation |
10 |
5 |
6 |
9 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
41 (2.0)
|
| Eye injury |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 (0.1)
|
| Total | 325 | 67 | 375 | 395 | 358 | 144 | 153 | 122 | 2,101 (100.0) |
Abbreviations: NAICS = North American Industry Classification System; OSHA = Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
* Some OSHA severe injury reports included more than one injury, hospitalization, or amputation; thus, the sum of hospitalizations, amputations, and eye injuries might exceed the total number of severe injury reports. Multiple severe injures from a single report were summed to create a total number of injuries.
† During January–July 2022.
§ NAICS code 213.
¶ NAICS code 213112.
** NAICS code 213111.
†† NAICS code 211.
§§ NAICS code 211111.
¶¶ NAICS code 211112.