Narratives of 464 severe work injuries in Ohio, with the injury type that OSHA recorded. Use it to test a decision model on a text task with five groups of different size.
Format
A tibble with 464 rows and 11 columns:
- id
Character. The report ID of OSHA.
- event_date
Date. The date of the event.
- city
Character. The city of the event.
- state
Character. The state, always
"OHIO".- final_narrative
Character. The narrative that OSHA published, with the whitespace trimmed and each line break changed to a space.
- original_nature_title
Character. The nature of the injury, as OSHA titles it.
- collapsed_nature_title
Factor. The nature of the injury in five groups, in this order:
amputation(187 rows),fracture(242),crushing injury(14),thermal burn(15) andconcussion(6).- original_event_title
Character. The event, as OSHA titles it.
- collapsed_event_title
Factor. The OIICS 2.01 division of the event, from the first digit of its code, in code order.
- original_source_title
Character. The source of the injury, as OSHA titles it.
- collapsed_source_title
Factor. The OIICS 2.01 division of the source, from the first digit of its code, in code order.
Source
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Severe injury reports [Data set]. U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports
Filters: Year: 2025 and State: Ohio.
Details
The data are a work of the U.S. government and are in the public domain. The reports cover employers under federal OSHA jurisdiction. The OIICS 2.01 divisions come from the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The five groups of collapsed_nature_title come from the titles of
OSHA like this:
amputation: "Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified" and "Amputations involving bone loss".fracture: "Fractures".crushing injury: "Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries".thermal burn: the three titles "Thermal burns" (degree unspecified, second degree, third degree or higher).concussion: "Concussions".
Three kinds of report are not in the data on purpose. The title "Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss" is out, because OSHA does not count an avulsion as an amputation. The combined titles "Fractures and soft tissue injuries" and "Fractures and surface, flesh wounds" are out, because they name more than one injury. The data keep no other column of the download, for example the employer, the address and the flag for an amputation.
Examples
table(ohio_injuries$collapsed_nature_title)
#>
#> amputation fracture crushing injury thermal burn concussion
#> 187 242 14 15 6
ohio_injuries$final_narrative[1]
#> [1] "An employee was removing a shaft from a dough machine for maintenance when their right little finger became caught and crushed in a pinch point. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the finger."