Is It Recordable?29 CFR 1904.39: Reporting fatalities & severe injuries
Scenarios that apply 29 CFR 1904.39 (Reporting fatalities & severe injuries).
Reportable Twice?
An employee is seriously injured at work and is admitted to a hospital. The employer reports the in-patient hospitalization to OSHA…
Not recordableOwner & Son
The owner of a small 8-person business brings his 17 year old son to work to begin training him how to run the company. The two get into…
Not recordableContract Employee
A long-term contract employee, responsible for repairing/maintaining equipment, gets his foot crushed under a large piece of equipment…
Not recordableExempted Industry: Eye Loss
A company from an OSHA recordkeeping exempt industry has two employees injured when some shelving fails and causes boxes to fall. One…
Not recordableMAYHEM
Employee A is assigned to the role of grilling hamburgers and hotdogs during a summer workday luncheon. While attempting to scrape the…
Terminated Injured Employee
A line crew at a utility company are dispatched to replace a damaged power pole. The new pole was successfully placed and two linemen…
RecordablePipeline Explosion (at a small business)
A pipeline inspection company is hired for some work on an existing line. All five of the company’s inspectors are contributing to the…
RecordablePainter Fall (at a small business)
A small subcontracting company of three employees is painting on a job site. One painter falls from a ladder while painting and breaks…
Not recordableHeart Failure
John Henry was an employee for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. He was known as the best hand on the job for his great strength and…
RecordableLoss of an Eye
At work, an employee removes his safety glass with his grinding wheel running. At that precise moment, the grinding wheel starts to…
RecordableLoss of Vision
An employee is sprayed in the face with a chemical and immediately loses vision. A co-worker rushes him over to the eyewash station…
Not recordableFinger Tip Amputation
A chef at a casino cuts the tip of his left middle finger off with a knife while preparing some meat. The chef does not lose any bone…
RecordableAmputated Earlobe
On a drilling rig, an oil field employee suffers an ear laceration that has taken off the lobe of his right ear. The ear is surgically…
RecordableAvulsion Injury
An administrative assistant is using a paper cutter at work and slices the pad of her middle finger tip off. At a clinic, the doctor…
Not recordableA Contractor is Injured - to Which OSHA 300 Log Does it Belong?
A contractor working on our site cut the tip of his finger off. The contractor was prescribed antibiotics and pain medication and was…
Recordable