The purpose of the grant is to collect, analyze, and publish statistical data on workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities according to the occupational safety and health act of 1970

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) awarded a $152,725.56 cooperative agreement to the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to collect, analyze, and publish occupational safety and health statistics through September 30, 2023. As part of the Compensation and Working Conditions federal grant program (CFDA 17.005), the recipient will provide statistical data on workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities to the BLS in accordance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. This includes survey data on non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses as well as fatal injury census information. The BLS and states share costs equally to gather these statistics, which serve as the nation's primary source of public health data on job-related safety issues. Final products support federal, state, and local governments' efforts to ensure workplace safety compliance and help focus private industry and worker safety initiatives.

The survey of non-fatal injuries and illnesses and the fatal injury census serve as the nation's primary source of public health statistics for job-related injuries and illnesses. Activities performed BLS collects data in a 50/50 cost-sharing partnership with states and territories. Deliverables federal and state governments, and the general public use data to track workplace injuries and illnesses by incident, industry, geography, occupation, and other characteristics. Intended beneficiary federal, state, and local governments use occupational safety and health statistics to ensure and improve the safety of workers. Oshs assists employers and policymakers in focusing their occupational safety and health efforts, and allows workers to be better informed about workplace hazards by providing relevant data on injuries, illnesses, and fatalities that affect america's workers. Private industry also use these products for analysis of occupational safety and health statistics. Subrecipient activities the recipients do not intend to subaward funds.