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Warehouse injury and safety statistics
What the numbers say about getting hurt in a warehouse, drawn straight from the two federal surveys that measure it: the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for how often, and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for the worst outcomes. Warehousing and storage ran a total recordable case rate of 4.8 per 100 full-time workers in 2024, against 2.3 for private industry as a whole, and the wider transportation and warehousing sector recorded 865 fatal work injuries that year.
Reference year 2024. Every figure below shows its source, its reference year, and the date it was copied, and links to the release it came from.
Fatal work injuries
The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries counts every fatal work injury in the country. Warehousing sits inside the transportation and warehousing sector, and most warehouse jobs fall in the transportation and material moving occupation group, so both cuts are shown here beside the national totals.
865
fatal work injuries
Transportation and warehousing sector
down 7.0 percent from 930 in 2023
1,391
fatal work injuries
Transportation and material moving occupations
12.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers
5,070
fatal work injuries
All US industries
3.3
per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers
US fatal injury rate
Leading fatal event categories, all US industries
How the fatal injuries broke down by what happened, across every industry. Transportation incidents lead nationally, which is the case a warehouse running powered trucks, docks, and yard traffic plans against first.
| Event or exposure | Fatalities |
|---|---|
| Transportation incidents | 1,937 |
| Falls, slips, and trips | 844 |
| Violent acts | 733 |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Economics Daily (CFOI): Fatal work injuries declined in 2024, 2024 data. Read 18 September 2026. If OSHA changes the page, this one changes with it.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI): National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2024, 2024 data. Read 18 September 2026. If OSHA changes the page, this one changes with it.
Nonfatal injury rates: the warehousing benchmark
Rates are the honest way to compare a large operation with a small one: a rate is cases per 100 full-time workers, so a 20-person site and a 900-person site read on the same scale. These are the 2024 Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses figures for warehousing and the industries next to it. Put your own DART or total recordable rate beside the row for your NAICS code.
| Industry (NAICS) | DART | Total recordable |
|---|---|---|
| Private industryAll private industry | 1.4 | 2.3 |
| Warehousing and storageNAICS 493 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
| General warehousing and storageNAICS 49311 | 4.3 | 4.9 |
| Couriers and messengersNAICS 492 | 6.6 | 8.0 |
| Truck transportationNAICS 484 | 2.2 | 2.9 |
| General freight truckingNAICS 4841 | 2.4 | 3.1 |
| Merchant wholesalers, durable goodsNAICS 423 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
| Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goodsNAICS 424 | 2.4 | 3.1 |
Behind those rates is a large national count of nonfatal cases in 2024.
2.5
million recordable nonfatal cases
Private industry, all sectors
down 3.1 percent from 2023
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII): Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, 2023-2024, 2024 data. Read 18 September 2026. If OSHA changes the page, this one changes with it.
To turn your own case counts and hours worked into these rates, use the DART and TRIR rate calculator.
Warehouse safety statistics, answered
- What is the injury rate for warehousing?
- For 2024, the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses put the total recordable case rate for warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) at 4.8 cases per 100 full-time workers, with a DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred) of 4.1. Private industry as a whole ran 2.3 recordable and 1.4 DART that year, so warehousing sat well above the all-industry average on both measures.
- How many warehouse workers die on the job each year?
- The BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries recorded 865 fatal work injuries in the transportation and warehousing sector in 2024 (down 7.0 percent from 930 in 2023). Across all US industries there were 5,070 fatal work injuries that year. Warehousing itself is one part of the wider transportation and warehousing sector, so the sector figure is the broadest count that includes warehouse operations.
- What are the leading causes of fatal work injuries?
- Across all US industries in 2024, the deadliest event categories were transportation incidents (1,937 deaths), falls, slips, and trips (844), and violent acts (733). Transportation incidents lead nationally, which is why a warehouse that runs powered trucks, docks, and yard traffic treats vehicle and pedestrian separation as a first-order control.
- Where do these warehouse safety statistics come from?
- Every figure on this page is copied from a primary US Bureau of Labor Statistics release for reference year 2024: the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for the incidence rates and case counts, and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for the fatal-injury figures. Each number shows its source, its reference year, and the date it was retrieved, and the source URL is linked. Nothing here is estimated or averaged, and a figure that could not be verified against its source was left off.
How this page is sourced
Every number here is copied from a primary US Bureau of Labor Statistics release for reference year 2024, not paraphrased from a secondary summary. Incidence rates and the national case count come from the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses; the fatal-injury figures come from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. Each figure carries its source, reference year, and retrieval date, and links to the release, so it can be checked and so it can be refreshed when BLS publishes the next year.
Two limits are worth stating plainly. The fatal-injury count is for the whole transportation and warehousing sector, which is broader than warehousing and storage alone, and the leading-event table is national across all industries, not warehousing on its own; both are labeled that way where they appear. Cost-per-injury figures, which some safety roundups quote, are not included here because they could not be verified against their primary source at the time of writing, and a page of checked facts is worth more than a fuller page with one number nobody can trace.
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