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The OSHA State-Plan private-sector states run their own reporting, so their federal counts are an undercount and no per-1,000 rate is published for them.","caveat":"AGGREGATE ONLY — state and trade-sector rollups, never a per-contractor attribution. A 'severe injury report' is an employer's mandated report of a work-related hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss (29 CFR 1904.39); it is not a citation or a penalty. The rate is an incidence signal across each state's establishment base, not a measure of any individual business. 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