OSHA to Begin Posting Employer Hospitalization and Amputation Reports

Since Jan. 1, 2015, employers with either hospitalizations or amputations have been required to notify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration within 24 hours of an incident.  In the mandate’s first year, 10,338 reports were submitted.  The summaries will be posted in a spreadsheet and will include:  name and address of each business filing a report in 2015, and information about the event, including cause of the accident and body part injured. Injured workers will not be identified in these reports.  This sharing of reports is part of OSHA’s effort to make employer injury and illness data widely available.  Starting in 2017, OSHA will post the injury and illness summary reports received as a result of the final rule on electronic reporting.   SGIA continues to monitor the implementation of this regulation. Sign up to receive the most up-to-date regulatory and legislative information about specialty imaging.