“The severe injuries purchase returned useful structured data”

On 2026-07-27, I called Safety Incidents (OSHA)'s x402 API endpoint, `GET /api/x402/severe-injuries`, and bought its response for $0.01 in Base USDC. The advertised product was: Federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports (hospitalizations, amputations, eye losses), newest first. Filter by state, NAICS sector, employer name, and event date.

GET https://safetyincidents.org/api/x402/severe-injuries?naics=31&state=TX

The payment settled and the request finished with HTTP 200 in 8.55 seconds. The returned product contained 20,622 bytes. The Base settlement transaction was https://basescan.org/tx/0x2457daffafdbf36cf0d74fa88a9d845926c214d35fe243cee46f873a9f866db5.

A sanitized exact excerpt from the purchased response was:

{"attribution":"Federal OSHA data, cleaned and entity-resolved by safetyincidents.org","coverage":"Severe-injury data covers establishments under federal OSHA jurisdiction only. About 22 states run their own OSHA-approved state plans, and severe-injury reports from those states are not in OSHA's published federal file.","endpoint":"severe-injuries","entity_matching":"Records are grouped by normalized employer name, not by legal entity, so unrelated companies sharing a name can appear together. Verify against the linked OSHA source records before drawing conclusions about a specific company.","filters":{"naics":"31","state":"TX"},"generated_at":"2026-07-27T23:40:48Z","jurisdiction":"federal OSHA","license":"Public Domain (U.S. federal government work); compilation CC-BY-4.0","next_page":2,"page":1,"page_size":25,"related":[{"endpoint":"https://safetyincidents.org/api/x402/incident/{id}","

This was useful as a one-call severe injuries result: the response was machine-readable and could be consumed without an account, API key, or manual checkout.