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You can find occupational injury and illness statistical information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm
Results: 125 records found
Q: I am setting up a program to measure our manufacturing plants accident frequency and severity. My plan is to compare the rates between our plants and the national average within our industry. Does OSHA have any such rates by industry?
FAQ ID: 147
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: I am updating our Computer Based Training and have injury and illness statistics dated 1996. Where can I find more recent statistics?
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You can find occupational injury and illness statistical information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm
FAQ ID: 65
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: I have had several workers compensation claims this year. I appealed a few of them and won, therefore the claims were denied. Because they were denied, do I need to document these claims on my OSHA 300 form?
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Workers' Compensation determinations do not impact OSHA recordability. The employer must evaluate each case using the OSHA recording criteria to determine if a case is recordable on the OSHA Form 300.
FAQ ID: 269
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: I have to fill out a safety performance history for our company. At the bottom of the form it asks for "EMR" history. I do not know what this is?
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The Experience Modification Rate (EMR) is a rate assigned by your worker's compensation insurance carrier. Please contact your carrier for this information.
FAQ ID: 38
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: I prepare a monthly safety report for my senior managers and would like to add national industry averages to it so that they can compare our performance to others in the industry. Where can I find current information on this?
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You can find occupational injury and illness statistical information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm
FAQ ID: 62
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: I understand that there is a training tutorial on Recordkeeping. How do I obtain this tutorial?
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The tutorial is located at http://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/tutorial.html
FAQ ID: 73
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: I would like to be able to obtain injury and illness statistics for individual companies: Is there a way I can look up these stats?
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You can search for establishment specific injury and illness rates at http://www.osha.gov/pls/odi/establishment_search.html
FAQ ID: 68
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: I would like to know the number of forklift/lift truck related fatalities and injuries reported in the workplace during the year for the entire country. Where can I find this information?
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You can find occupational injury and illness statistical information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics webpage at http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm
FAQ ID: 80
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: If a business logs an injury on the 300 log but later finds out that the injury was not work related and was denied as Worker's Compensation, can the entry be removed from the 300 Log?
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Workers' Compensation determinations do not impact OSHA recordability. The employer must evaluate the employee's work duties and the work environment to decide whether an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition. If so, the case is work-related.
FAQ ID: 15
Source: OSHA e-correspondence
Q: If a maintenance employee is cleaning the parking lot or an access road and is injured as a result, is the case work-related?
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Yes, the case is work-related because the employee is injured as a result of conducting company business in the work environment. If the injury meets the general recording criteria of Section 1904.7 (death, days away, etc.), the case must be recorded.
For more information, explore OSHA's Recordkeeping Requirements.
FAQ ID: 5-1
Source: FAQs