Diversified Support Services Data: Labor Ledgers, Safety Records, Business Registers and Service-Sector Revenue · Head-to-head
OSHA Enforcement & Injury Data vs Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) — NAICS 56
Which diversified support services data: labor ledgers, safety records, business registers and service-sector revenue data fits your job: OSHA Enforcement & Injury Data, or Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages — NAICS 56. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
OSHA Enforcement & Injury Data
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) — NAICS 56
Coverage, side by side
| OSHA Enforcement & Injury Data | Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages — NAICS 56 | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | All fifty states plus DC, with street address, city, state and ZIP per establishment; enforcement and severe-injury components limited to federal jurisdiction | United States and California statewide plus every California county in this edition; the wider program publishes national, state, metro and county files |
| Temporal | Summaries 2016-2025; case detail from the 2024 filing year; severe injuries from January 2015; fatalities from April 2011; chemical exposure samples from 1984; archived rates 1996-2011 | 2004 through the fourth quarter of 2025, quarterly with annual aggregates alongside |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| OSHA Enforcement & Injury Data | Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages — NAICS 56 | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration | Federal statistical program built on state unemployment-insurance records |
| Subject lens | Safety view of the workforce: electronically filed injury and illness summaries, case detail, inspections, citations, penalties, severe injuries and fatalities | Payroll view of the workforce: establishment counts, employment and wages for administrative support and waste management (NAICS 56) |
| Observation unit | One row per establishment per filing year (summaries), per case (Forms 300/301 detail), per inspection or incident (enforcement) | One row per quarter per area per ownership class per NAICS code, at aggregation levels 0 through 6 |
| Industry scope | All covered industries, with NAICS 5617xx and 5614xx support trades contributing tens of thousands of filings per cycle | NAICS 56 only, sliced from level 0 totals down to six-digit industries such as 561720 and 561730 |
| Geographic coverage | All fifty states plus DC, with street address, city, state and ZIP per establishment; enforcement and severe-injury components limited to federal jurisdiction | United States and California statewide plus every California county in this edition; the wider program publishes national, state, metro and county files |
| Temporal coverage | Summaries 2016-2025; case detail from the 2024 filing year; severe injuries from January 2015; fatalities from April 2011; chemical exposure samples from 1984; archived rates 1996-2011 | 2004 through the fourth quarter of 2025, quarterly with annual aggregates alongside |
| Documented fields | 31, verified against submitted values during the August 2026 review | 15, definitions confirmed against the published record in the same pass |
| Scale | Roughly 383,000 establishment rows in the 2025 summary cycle alone | Roughly 815,000 rows per recent-year file; twenty-two years of quarters |
| Best for | Vendor screening, incidence-rate benchmarking, safety-risk modeling, workers' compensation pricing | Market sizing, wage-floor mapping, staffing-demand indicators, footprint tracking by county and quarter |
Or take both in one feed
Yes - as outcomes and denominators, which is the pairing support-services analysis actually wants.
Model risk from the OSHA side: establishment-level case counts, severity mix and hours worked by NAICS code and state, with the EIN on every summary row tying filings together across years. An Alameda County quarter showing 1,892 private administrative-and-support establishments employing 35,388 people for $679 million in wages is exactly the context that turns an injury rate into a business decision. Rates computed from total_hours_worked gain credibility when the employment base behind them reconciles with the near-census payroll record.
Reconcile on NAICS code, state and year - the three genuinely shared keys - and mind three seams. Observation units differ: employer filings and incident rows against pre-aggregated cells, so never sum them into one number. Jurisdiction differs: enforcement components stop at federal lines while payroll coverage does not. And geographic depth differs: nationwide establishment rows against an edition weighted to California counties, so align geographies before comparing magnitudes. Datadory ships both normalized to their documented dictionaries - 31 fields and 15 - with sample rows attached for validation, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Request a sample of either dataset to watch the rows validate before anyone commits. Or take both in one feed.
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Fair questions
Is OSHA Enforcement & Injury Data better than QCEW NAICS 56?
Different instruments, so better depends on the question. For establishment-level safety outcomes - deaths, days-away cases, hours worked, citations - the OSHA record wins, and nothing else ties incidents to named addresses at this scale. For market size, employment and wages by county and quarter across NAICS 56, QCEW wins on coverage and provenance. Both score 9 out of 10; sample both, pick by fit.
Do both datasets cover the same employers?
Largely yes at the industry level and no at the observation level. Both isolate NAICS 56 - janitorial, security, landscaping and business-support services - and both separate private from government entities. But the OSHA record observes individual establishments and incidents, while QCEW publishes aggregated cells per quarter, area, ownership class and industry code, so an employer visible by name in one appears only as part of a count in the other.
Which dataset covers more history?
They run on different clocks. QCEW spans 2004 through the fourth quarter of 2025 in continuous quarterly series. The OSHA summary files run 2016 through the 2025 filing cycle, but its companion registers reach much deeper: Severe Injury Reports from January 2015, fatality inspections from April 2011, chemical exposure samples back to 1984 and archived injury rates for 1996-2011. Depth favors the safety record; continuity favors the payroll record.
How current is the data in each?
The OSHA 2025 summary file captures submissions received through mid-March 2026, with inspection records extending into August 2026; case-detail files begin with the 2024 filing year. QCEW's edition here runs through the fourth quarter of 2025. Datadory delivers whichever vintage your sample needs, refreshed daily, weekly, or hourly - your call.
Can I get both records from Datadory?
Yes - sample both and pick by fit, or take both in one feed. Each arrives normalized to its documented dictionary (31 fields for the OSHA record, 15 for QCEW NAICS 56) with sample rows attached so you can test the incident-row and payroll-cell shapes before committing, alongside the other primary records in the diversified support services slice, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call.