Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses - Private Sector

U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics

Options for Reporting Your Survey of Occupational
Injuries and Illnesses Data
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is pleased to offer these methods of reporting your Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses data.
1. You can report your injury and illness data on the BLS Internet.
2. You can receive an electronic fillable form of the survey by e-mail, enter your data, and then send it to us.
If you need help or are unable to report electronically, please call the phone number listed for your State on the back cover of
the form.

Option 1: Use the Internet

6.

Click Print to get a copy of your data when finished.

7.

Click Submit Your Data to BLS to transmit your data to
BLS.

Step 1: Register with the BLS
Before reporting your data, you must register with the BLS even
if you registered in previous years or for other surveys.
1.

2.

Go to https://idcf.bls.gov on your Internet browser. The
“s” in “https” is required. Click Cancel if a Client
Authentication or Choose a Digital Certificate pop-up
window appears.
Enter the 12-digit Account Number in the field labeled
“Account Number” and the Temporary Password in the
field labeled “Password”. See the example below. Click I
Accept.
Sample Mailing Label
You will need the Account
Number and Temporary
Password if you report via the
Internet.

You will need your company
address and your Establishment
ID if you report via e-mail.

3.

Complete the “Enter New User Information” page and
“Create a Permanent Password” page.

4.

Click Continue on the “Confirmation and Security Option
Notice” page.

Step 2: Report Your Data
1.

You may log back in and make revisions if you ever need to
change your data. Click Submit Your Data to BLS to transmit
your revised data after you have made changes.

Select Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses from
the Please Select a Survey drop-down box.

Option 2: Use a Fillable Form
You may obtain an electronic fillable form of the survey, which
allows you to type your information directly into each data field.
1.

Obtain an electronic fillable form of the survey (Adobe ®
PDF fillable form) by sending a blank e-mail to
[email protected].

2.

Save the form to your computer and open it using Adobe
Reader®. If you do not have Adobe Reader, you can
download it for free from www.Adobe.com.

3.

Enter your establishment’s identifying information and
injury and illness data. Navigate through the fields on the
form by using the TAB key.

4.

Save the form on your computer when you have entered all
of your injury and illness data.

5.

Send the file to the BLS by pressing the “Submit Data to
BLS” button on the bottom of the form. You will receive
confirmation on-screen when your data have been received
by the BLS.

Need help?
Try one of these:
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Click the Help link that appears on each online screen.

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Contact [email protected] for registration help.

2.

Read the “Dear Employer” screen and click Continue.

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3.

If you have more than one survey booklet to complete,
enter the number of booklets and the Establishment IDs on
the “Add New Establishment ID(s) to Account” screen and
click Continue.

Go to http://www.bls.gov/idcf/instructions.htm for
additional registration instructions. The data entry pages
cannot be accessed through these instructions.

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Contact [email protected] for questions
regarding your participation in the survey or completing
the survey online.

4.

Find the Establishment ID that you want to report for in the
first column on the screen. Click Select.

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5.

Enter your data. Click Continue to save your data.

Visit www.bls.gov/respondents/iif to get more
information on the survey, to download forms, and to get
answers to your questions about your participation in the
survey.

Why are Occupational Injury and Illness Data Important?
Your data are important for making the American workplace safer. Data you report are aggregated with data from other
establishments and used to identify injury and illness patterns among industries and occupations.

Industries with the most nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses, 2006
264.3

General medical & surgical hospitals
General merchandise stores

144.6

Transportation equipment manufacturing

141.8
135.3

Administrative & support services

127.5

Ambulatory health care services

121.1

Nursing care facilities
Building equipment contractors

120.7

Fabricated metal product manufacturing

119.3

Merchant wholesalers, durable goods

114.1

Limited-service eating places

112.5

Full-service restaurants

110.6

Food manufacturing

109.9

Supermarkets & other grocery stores

108.0

Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

105.4
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280

Number in thousands

Number and incidence rate of injuries and illnesses for occupations
with the highest incidence rate, 2006
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants 526
Construction laborers
Laborers and freight, stock,
and material movers
Emergency medical technicians
and paramedics
Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
Roofers
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

49,480

488

40,510

454

5,070

411

66,040

410

4,300

363

12,890

Carpenters

335

Food servers, nonrestaurant

333

Mobile heavy equipment mechanics,
except engines

317

Industrial machinery mechanics

316

600

85,120

466

400
200
Incidence rate
(per 10,000 workers)

28,000
3,910
3,270
7,360
0

20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
Number of injuries and illnesses

Want to explore the data?
• Compute your own injury and illness incidence rate to assist with safety management and to compare with your industry at
http://data.bls.gov/IIRC/.
• Access data on industry, demographic characteristics, and case characteristics through the “Profiles on the Web” tool at
http://data.bls.gov/GQT/servlet/InitialPage.
• Get the latest occupational injury and illness statistics at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm.