More employers will be required to submit workplace injury and illness information under a final rule released by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on July 17. The new rule will take effect on Jan. 1, 2024.

OSHA is amending its regulations to require certain companies to electronically report information as follows:

• Worksites with 100 or more employees in certain high-risk industries must electronically submit information from their OSHA Forms 300 and 301 to OSHA once a year. Added to the list of industries were logging, furniture-related product manufacturing, durable goods wholesalers, taxi and limousine services, and hunting and trapping.
• Worksites with 250 or more employees that are subject to OSHA's record-keeping regulation will continue to be required to submit information from their OSHA 300A form to OSHA annually.
• Worksites with 20 to 249 employees in certain high-risk industries will continue to be required to submit information from their OSHA 300A form to OSHA annually.
  

The size threshold is based on one physical work location, not the size of the company as a whole.

OSHA will not collect employee names or addresses, the names of health care professionals who provided treatment, or locations where medical treatment was provided away from the worksite.

OSHA already requires employers to keep records of work-related injuries and illnesses that resulted in death, loss of consciousness, medical treatment beyond first aid, days away...

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