Public Street Motor Vehicle Accidents and OSHA Recording
Record work-related vehicle crashes on public roads if they meet a criterion; report them to OSHA only if they happen in a construction work zone.
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OSHA Work-Relatedness Guides
Before you ask whether a case is serious enough to record, decide whether it is work-related. Under 29 CFR 1904.5, an injury or illness is presumed work-related when an event or exposure in the work environment caused or contributed to it, or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition. The work environment includes the establishment and any other location where employees are working or are present as a condition of their employment.
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The presumption has nine exceptions. A case is not work-related if the person was present as a member of the general public; if symptoms surface at work but result solely from a non-work event; if it comes from voluntary wellness or recreational activity; from eating, drinking or preparing food for personal consumption; from personal tasks outside assigned working hours; from personal grooming, self-medication or intentional self-infliction; from a motor vehicle accident in a company parking lot or access road during the commute; if it is a common cold or flu; or if it is a mental illness, unless the employee voluntarily provides a qualified professional's opinion that it is work-related.
The guides here apply those rules to travel status, work from home, company events, commuting and public-road accidents.
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Eating and Drinking Injuries at Work: OSHA Recordkeeping Exceptions
Choking on lunch or scalding yourself with coffee at work is not work-related, because 1904.5 excepts eating and drinking for personal consumption.
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Personal Tasks at Work and OSHA Recordkeeping
Injuries from personal tasks done at work outside assigned working hours, like fixing your own car in the shop after the shift, are not work-related.
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Wellness Program Injuries and OSHA Recordkeeping
Injuries that result solely from voluntary participation in a wellness program or fitness activity, even on company premises, are not work-related.
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Company Event Injuries and OSHA Recordkeeping
Injuries at voluntary recreational events, like a company picnic softball game, are generally not work-related under the recreation exception.
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Parking Lot Injuries and OSHA Recordability
A company-controlled parking lot is part of the work environment, so a slip or fall there is generally work-related.
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Commuting Injuries and OSHA Recordkeeping: What Usually Stays Off the Log
Injuries during an ordinary commute are not work-related, and a motor vehicle accident in the company parking lot or access road while commuting…
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Common Cold and Flu Exceptions in OSHA Work-Relatedness
The common cold and flu are never recordable: 29 CFR 1904.5(b)(2)(viii) excludes them from work-relatedness even when caught at work.
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Travel Status Injuries and OSHA Recordkeeping: Hotels, Commutes, and Work Tasks
A travel injury is work-related if the employee was acting in the employer's interest, such as traveling to a customer, working…
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Preexisting Conditions and OSHA Recordability: When Work Significantly Aggravates an Injury
Work significantly aggravates a pre-existing condition when it causes days away, restriction, new treatment…
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Work-Relatedness Under OSHA 1904.5: A Practical Decision Path
A case is work-related if something in the work environment caused or contributed to it, or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.
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How to Record Work-From-Home Injuries on OSHA Logs
A work-from-home injury is work-related if it happens while the employee is doing paid work and is directly related to that work, not to the home environment.
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