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Report a Fatality or Severe Injury. All employers are required to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye. A fatality must be reported within 8 hours.
Fatality and Severe Injury Reporting. Employers must report any worker fatality within 8 hours and any amputation, loss of an eye, or hospitalization of a worker within 24 hours. Learn details and how to report online or by phone.
Within eight (8) hours after the death of any employee as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the fatality to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor.
Investigating a worksite incident- a fatality, injury, illness, or close call- provides employers and workers the opportunity to identify hazards in their operations and shortcomings in their safety and health programs.
Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses. The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970 requires certain employers to prepare and maintain records of work-related injuries and illnesses. Use these definitions when you classify cases on the Log.
When an injury or illness involves one or more days away from work, you must record the injury or illness on the OSHA 300 Log with a check mark in the space for cases involving days away and an entry of the number of calendar days away from work in the number of days column.
OSHA requires employers to report all work-related severe injuries, defined as an amputation, in-patient hospitalization, or loss of an eye. The requirement began on January 1, 2015. You can download the complete severe injury dataset file from the SIR Dashboard page.
Covered establishments must submit their annual 300A, 300, and 301 data to the Injury Tracking Application (ITA). Visit our Injury Tracking Application page for information about submitting annual work-related injury and illness data through the ITA, including answers to frequently asked questions.
File a Complaint. Workers have the right to report injuries, safety issues, and actions taken against them for speaking up including being fired, demoted, or disciplined. You have the right to file both complaints if appropriate.
The summaries provide a complete description of the incident, generally including events leading up to the incident and causal factors. These summaries can be searched by keyword, text in the summary description, event date, and industry (SIC or NAICS).