New Reporting Requirements for OSHA 300

Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses

Injury Reporting Deadline is coming soon!

Remember, the deadline for employers to electronically submit their 2019 Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses is March 2, 2020.

Instructions and the Tracking Application are available at: https://www.osha.gov/injuryreporting.

But keep in mind that these requirements were changed in 2019.

Specifically, employers with 250 or more employees are no longer required to electronically submit their OSHA 300 and OSHA 301 Forms directly to OSHA. They do still have to submit Form 300A.

Requirements for establishments with 250 or more employees have not changed. They still need to electronically file their annual OSHA 300A Form before March 2, 2020.

Additionally, all employers must continue to report to OSHA any workplace incident that results in a fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye.

The changes do not modify any requirements for maintaining the reports. As a reminder, the forms include:

OSHA 301 – Injury and Illness Incident Report

A confidential medical information form that must be completed within 7 calendar days after an employer receives information that a recordable work-related injury or illness has occurred.

The 301 records the personal information of the injured worker, a listing of medical professionals who consulted, and incident details of the particular injury or illness.301 records must be kept for a minimum of five years.

OSHA 300 – Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses

This form is essentially a registry of all Injury and Illness Incident Reports (301 forms) filed throughout the calendar year.

This form includes confidential information, including the worker’s identity, a description of the incident and the resulting injury or illness, and a place to indicate the DART days and classification of injury or illness type.The 300 form is completed even when there are no recordable work-related injuries or illnesses.

OSHA 300A – Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses

The public summary form that draws from the 300 form entries. It does not list worker names, but tallies the number of cases and total DART days.

The 300A must include a signed affidavit from a company executive.The 300A for the previous calendar year must be posted visibly in the workplace from February 1 through April 30.The 300A is posted even when there are no recordable work-related injuries or illnesses.

PDF and Excel versions of all files are available from OSHA at https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/RKforms.html

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