OSHA Form Filing FAQs: 300, 300A, 301, and ITA Answers for 2026
Four duties get blurred: recording on the 300 and 301, certifying and posting the 300A, submitting to the ITA if covered, and keeping records five years.
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OSHA Form Filing FAQs
Filing questions usually come down to four separate duties that are easy to blur together. You record cases on the OSHA 300 Log and a 301 incident report, or an equivalent form, within seven calendar days of learning about them. You summarize the year on the 300A, have it certified by a company executive, and post it from February 1 to April 30. If your establishment meets the size and industry thresholds in 29 CFR 1904.41, you submit data electronically through OSHA's Injury Tracking Application by March 2. And you keep all of it for five years, updating the log when cases change.
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Separate from all four is reporting. Work-related fatalities must be reported to OSHA within 8 hours, and in-patient hospitalizations, amputations and losses of an eye within 24 hours, whether or not you are required to keep records.
The FAQ guide in this topic answers the questions safety and HR teams ask most during filing season. For deeper answers, the topic pages on forms, deadlines and electronic submission cover each duty in detail, with the section of the regulation behind every answer.
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Filing FAQs
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Recordability22
Electronic submission18
Forms 300, 300A & 30112
Work-relatedness12
Covered employees9
DART & day counts9
Deadlines9
Severe injury reporting8
Employee access7
Retention & updates7
Scope & exemptions6
Audits & quality5
Incidence rates5
Multiple establishments5
Privacy cases5
Software5
300A certification4
AI & terminology3
Penalties1
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Keep the log, the 301s and the 300A in one place
300log turns each case into its OSHA 300 Log entry and 301 report, keeps privacy cases off the shared log, totals the 300A and files it with OSHA's ITA for you as soon as you authorize it.