# Letters of Interpretation
1 - 1904.5 - Determining if an employee’s death would be work-related when involved in a motor vehicle accident
2 - 1904.5 - Determining if injuries or illnesses are work-related as a result of an act of violence
3 - 1904.5 - Determining if injuries or illnesses are work-related when involved in a motor vehicle accident
4 - 1904.5 - Determining if Injuries and Illnesses are work-related when employees commute from home to work and from a hotel to a worksite.
5 - 1904.5 - Determining the recordability of an illness when an employee uses a rescue inhaler following an exposure in the work place.
6 - 1904.5 - Determining whether to record an employee’s injury that involved both work-related and non-work-related incidents.
7 - 1904.5 - Determining if injuries and illnesses are work-related when employees participate in off-site voluntary charitable activity.
8 - 1904.5 - Determining if the work-related injury or illness would apply to the work-related exception 1904.5(b)(2)(ii)
9 - 1904.5 - Determining work-related injuries for accidents that occur on a public road or highway
10 - 1904.5 - Recording criteria for cases involving occupational hearing loss when employees use hearing protection
11 - 1904.5 - Clarification on the work-related exemption involving personal tasks outside the assigned working hours
12 - 1904.5 - Determining whether an injury or illness is work-related and recordable
13 - 1904.5 - Determining work-relatedness for injuries while on travel status
14 - 1904.5 - Determining work-relatedness for pre-existing condition.
15 - 1904.5 - Clarification of a pre-existing injury or illness and recordable events
16 - 1904.5 - Clarifying the Recordability Criteria of Several Examples Addressing the Issues of Determining Work-relatedness and Covered Employees
17 - 1904.5, 1904.5(b)(2)(ii) - Clarification of the terms most authoritative and pre-existing conditions as used for recordkeeping purposes.
18 - 1904.5 - Clarification on recordkeeping exemption for illness resulting from consuming food in the workplace.
19 - 1904.5 - Clarification of assigned working hours when recording work-related injuires/illnesses.
20 - 1904.5 - Clarification of preexisting injury/illness and recordkeeping
21 - 1904.5 - Clarification of the term self-inflicted as used in the Recordkeeping standard
22 - 1904.5 - Determining work-relatedness for recordkeeping of injury resulting from horseplay.
23 - 1904.5 - Clarification of several recordkeeping scenarios regarding days away from work, restricted work activity, and work-relatedness.
24 - 1904.5 - Whether to record two cases of employee injuries sustained in company parking lot during employees commute to work.
25 - 1904.5 - Determining whether injuries in the company parking lot during paid company break are work-related.
26 - 1904.5 - Clarification of 1910.95 and 1904 regarding physicians and audiologists roles in determining work-relatedness of worker hearing loss.
27 - 1904.5 - Recording an injury when employer is provided with different medical opinions.
28 - 1904.5 - Whether to record injuries that occur to a contract employee when traveling from an offshore manned platform complex to other downfield fixed platforms.
29 - 1904.5 - Whether to record injuries that occur to employees who travel from an offshore manned platform complex or dock to other offshore platforms.
30 - 1904.5 - Determination of work-relatedness on a construction site.
31 - 1904.5 - 29 CFR Part 1904 OSHA Recordkeeping Regulation applies only within the jurisdictional boundaries of the United States and certain locations listed in OSHAct Sec. 4(a).
32 - 1904.5 - Evaluation of seven scenarios for work-relatedness and recordkeeping requirements.
33 - 1904.5 - Determining work-relatedness when the work event or exposure is only one of the discernable causes; not the sole or predominant cause.
34 - 1904.5 - Clarification on determining if an injury or illness is work-related and the recordability of the administration of oxygen.
35 - 1904.5 - OSHA's no-fault recordkeeping system requires recording work-related injuries and illnesses, regardless of the level of employer control or non-control involved.
# Federal Register
1 - 1904.5, 1904.5(b)(3) - 86:32376-32628 - Occupational Exposure to COVID-19; Emergency Temporary Standard; Interim Final Rule
2 - 1904.5 - 81:68504-68685 - Standards Improvement Project-Phase IV; Proposed Rule - PDF
3 - 1904.5 - 66:52031-52034 - Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements - PDF
# FAQ
1 Question 5-11 - An employee experienced an injury or illness in the work environment before they had "clocked in" for the day. Is the case considered work related even if that employee was not officially "on the clock" for pay purposes? - 1904.5
2 Question 5-2 - Are cases of workplace violence considered work-related under the new Recordkeeping rule? - 1904.5
3 Question 5-10 - How does OSHA define a "company parking lot" for purposes of Recordkeeping? - 1904.5
4 Question 5-1 - If a maintenance employee is cleaning the parking lot or an access road and is injured as a result, is the case work-related? - 1904.5
5 Question 5-13 - If an employee dies or is injured or infected as a result of terrorist attacks, should it be recorded on the OSHA Injury and Illness Log? Should it be reported to OSHA? - 1904.5
6 Question 5-6 - If an employee stays at work after normal work hours to prepare for the next day's tasks and is injured, is the case work-related? For example, if an employee stays after work to prepare air-sampling pumps and is injured, is the case work-related? - 1904.5
7 Question 5-7 - If an employee voluntarily takes work home and is injured while working at home, is the case recordable? - 1904.5
8 Question 5-8 - If an employee's pre-existing medical condition causes an incident which results in a subsequent injury, is the case work-related? For example, if an employee suffers an epileptic seizure, falls, and breaks his arm, is the case covered by the exception in section 1904.5(b)(2)(ii)? - 1904.5
9 Question 5-12 - Is work-related stress recordable as a mental illness case? - 1904.5
10 Question 5-9 - This question involves the following sequence of events: Employee A drives to work, parks her car in the company parking lot and is walking across the lot when she is struck by a car driven by employee B, who is commuting to work. Both employees are seriously injured in the accident. Is either case work-related? - 1904.5
11 Question 5-3 - What activities are considered "personal grooming" for purposes of the exception to the geographic presumption of work-relatedness in section 1904.5(b)(2)(vi)? - 1904.5
12 Question 5-4 - What are "assigned working hours" for purposes of the exception to the geographic presumption in section 1904.5(b)(2)(v)? - 1904.5
13 Question 5-5 - What are "personal tasks" for purposes of the exception to the geographic presumption in section 1904.5(b)(2)(v)? - 1904.5
# Regulations
1 - 1904.5 - Determination of work-relatedness.