Employer's First Report of Injury or disease

Updates to OSHA’s Recordkeeping Rule: Reporting Fatalities and Severe Injuries

Who is required to report fatalities and severe injuries:
All employers under OSHA jurisdiction must report these incidents to OSHA, even employers who are exempt from routinely keeping OSHA records due to company size or industry.

What am I required to report under the new rule?
Employers now must call OSHA’s local office at 603-225-1629 or 24-hour hotline 800-321-6742 to report the following work-related incidents:

• Fatalities (within 8 hours)
• Inpatient hospitalizations of one or more employees (within 24 hours)
• Amputations (within 24 hours)
• Losses of an eye (within 24 hours)