Sources
Every page on CompCharts ends with the list of source URLs that backed the data on it. This page is the index of source types we rely on across the whole site. Page-level citations stay on each individual page so the connection between figure and source is visible at the point of use.
Federal data
- US Department of Labor, OWCP State Workers Compensation Officials Directory: official directory of every state's workers comp agency with contact info.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF): SOII and CFOI publications.
- BLS SOII Nonfatal Injury Tables: industry, state, and body-part breakdowns.
- BLS CFOI Fatal Injury Tables.
- OSHA Data: enforcement, ITA, and severe injury report datasets.
- data.gov workers-compensation tag: per-state datasets aggregated through the federal CKAN harvest.
- IRS Publication 525: federal tax treatment of workers compensation benefits (excluded from gross income under IRC § 104(a)(1)).
State legislatures and workers comp boards
Every state hub page lists the specific statute sections and board rate pages we pull from. The list below is the entry point for each state agency we currently track.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Each state link goes to that state's CompCharts hub. The agency's own website link sits in the source list on every state page.
Why we do not cite some other sources
- AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment: copyrighted by the American Medical Association. Where a state's law adopts the Guides, we say so and link the state's adoption language. We do not republish AMA content.
- WCRI research reports: paid membership content. Useful, but not freely citable.
- NCCI Scopes manual and experience-rating data: licensed product.
- VerdictSearch, JuryVerdicts, and similar verdict databases: paid databases. We do not publish "average settlement" figures derived from these because the underlying data is not freely citable.
- Law-firm-published settlement averages: not public-domain data and impossible to verify against a source of record.