How We Work

Using injured.org's data

The federal records behind every number on this site are public. Anyone can use those facts. The checked figures, charts, and reporting we build from those facts are our own work, and how you can use them depends on who you are.

Journalists and researchers get free access, described below. Everyone else needs a license. That covers firms, agencies, and other businesses.

For journalists and researchers

If you're working on a story or a study, you can use our numbers, charts, and data cuts free of charge. A credit line back to injured.org is always welcome and never required. We'll never hold up a request waiting for one, and how you credit a source stays your call, not ours.

Tell us what you need on our data request page and we'll get it to you fast.

For firms, agencies, and other businesses

You can license our data and reporting. That's true for law firms, agencies, insurers, and other businesses. A license spells out exactly how you can use our work, so there's no guesswork on either side. The federal records themselves stay public. Anyone can use those facts. But the way we've checked, organized, and presented them is different, and a license covers that part.

How we build what we publish

Every number here traces to a public federal source and a documented method. Our methodology page shows exactly how we build each figure. Our data sources page lists where every dataset comes from.