Is your company now subject to reporting worker injuries under new regulations (issued September 2014) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
Effective January 1, 2015, unless exempt, OSHA requires that all employers must report:
- All work-related fatalities within 8 hours of occurrence, and
- All work-related inpatient hospitalizations, all amputations, and all losses of an eye within 24 hours of occurrence.
Although OSHA applies primarily to employers who are considered to have hazardous work environments, all employers with at least three employees must report the above occurrences. To report by phone, you can call the 24-hour OSHA hotline (800) 321-6742. If you are unsure if the occurrence is really work-related, the local OSHA office will investigate and make that determination.
For more information, here are several quick links to the OSHA website:
OSHA forms and tutorial: https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/index.html
OSHA Fact Sheet: https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping2014/OSHA3746.pdf
Who is exempt? Refer to the below links for lists of industries that are:
Partially Exempt: https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/ppt1/RK1exempttable.html
Newly Included: https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping2014/reporting_industries.html
To determine your company’s type of industry and its NAICS code, refer to the link below:
http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/concordances/concordances.html
Additional reference (Flex-Pay Payroll Services newsletter article): http://www.bizactions.com/n.cfm/page/e120/key/289942258G2386J6827316N0P2506P2506T2/
As a general disclaimer, the information provided above is very general and broad in nature, is not represented as complete, and may not apply to taxpayers’ individual situations. We advise all taxpayers to consult a professional tax advisor regarding their own specific tax needs.