INTRODUCTION The Survey of Occupational Injuries@ Illnesses@ and Fatalities in the Petroleum Industry (OII) is conducted annually. Participation is voluntary and the number of participating companies varies from year to year. Therefore@ the reader should exercise caution when using this data to characterize the performance of the industry as a whole. Participants are asked to submit data according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) guidelines. Therefore@ this report provides incidence rates per 200@000 hours worked on the same basis as those reported by BLS. Historical Background API has been collecting data regarding workplace injuries@ illnesses@ and fatalities in The Survey of Occupational Injuries@ Illnesses@ and Fatalities in the Petroleum Industry (OII) since 1931. Prior to the 1999 survey@ companies submitted employee data for their U.S. operations only. In 2000@ API expanded the scope of the OII and began collecting employee and contract worker data for operations both inside and outside of the United States. A second change introduced in 2000 gave participants the ability to submit their data electronically using The Occupational Injuries@ Illnesses@ and Fatalities Reporting System at http://oii.api.org/. Features of this online database include automatic data checks@ online instructions@ and report generation. In addition@ companies willing to share their data have the ability to produce customized benchmarking reports. While conducting the 2001 survey@ API learned that a number of companies no longer track certain data. Consequently@ it was decided to make those data fields optional in the 2002 survey. These optional data fields are The Average Number of Employees@ Job Transfer or Restriction@ All Injury Cases@ and All Illness Cases. Current System In 2010@ the Occupational Injuries@ Illnesses@ and Fatalities Reporting System was redesigned. The data entry forms are more user-friendly and the reporting features now give participants the capability to: Create customized company specific ad-hoc reports for benchmarking Create trending reports that include graphs Create@ edit@ and save report templates Export reports in the following formats: Excel@ Word@ CSV@ PDF@ XML@ MHTML@ or TIFF