Agriculture's amputation rate: 497 of 1,875 severe injuries, on par with heavy manufacturing

Agriculture is a smaller presence in the federal severe-injury archive than construction or manufacturing — partly because many small farms fall outside federal OSHA's reporting reach — but the injuries it does report are unusually severe. Employers in NAICS sector 11 (agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting) have filed 1,875 severe-injury reports since 2015.

A machinery-driven amputation rate

497 of those reports — 27% — are amputations, on par with the archive-wide rate that is itself dominated by heavy manufacturing. The cause is the machinery of modern farming: augers, power take-off shafts, balers, combines, and grain-handling equipment, whose unguarded moving parts produce the same traumatic amputations seen on a food-processing line. It places agriculture among the most amputation-prone corners of the economy per report filed.

Where agricultural injuries concentrate

Each count opens the live records.

State	Agriculture severe injuries
Texas	301
Florida	240
California · state-plan	16

California's 16 reflects its own state plan, not low risk — most of its agricultural injuries flow to Cal/OSHA, outside this federal dataset. Browse all 1,875 agriculture severe-injury records, the 497 amputations, or the broader amputation-by-sector picture.

Method & source

All counts are live queries against the federal OSHA Severe Injury Report archive (events dated 2015-01-01 through 2025-10-31) indexed by Safety Incidents, which holds 105,313 reports, of which 27,770 (about 26%) are amputations. Sector figures count reports whose primary NAICS begins with 11; the amputation share is of those 1,875 reports. Reproduce any figure by applying the same filters on the search page. Reporting has been mandatory under federal OSHA jurisdiction since January 2015; the 22 states running their own OSHA-approved plans report separately and are under-represented here — see the 22-state blind spot.