January 17, 2018
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced that covered employers can now electronically report their calendar year 2017 Form 300A data through OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA). Covered establishments are required to submit the information by July 1, 2018.
Learn which establishments are covered by this requirement and need to provide their 2017 data through OSHA’s ITA.
The following information on electronic reporting is available on the Department of Labor’s (DOL) website:
According to the DOL website, the following OSHA-approved state plans have not yet adopted the requirement to submit injury and illness reports electronically: California, Maryland, Minnesota, South Carolina, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Establishments in these states are not currently required to submit their summary data through the injury tracking application. Similarly, state and local government establishments in Illinois, Maine, New Jersey and New York are not currently required to submit their data through the Injury Tracking Application.
Contact information for each of the state plans can be found on OSHA’s website.
Note: Enforcement of the anti-retaliation provisions of the Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses final rule went into effect on Dec. 1, 2016.
In 2016, ABC filed a lawsuit against the final rule, which remains pending.
More information about the final rule can be found on DOL’s website and the ITA landing page.
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