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OSHA Extends Deadline for Electronic Submission of 2016 Injury and Illness Data to Dec. 15, 2017

Published on 29/11/2017

On November 24, 2017, a final rule was published in the Federal Register in which the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) extended the deadline for the first required electronic submission of workplace injury and illness data to December 15, 2017. OSHA proposed, in June, to extend the deadline from July 1, 2017 to December 1, 2017 because the launch of OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA) was pushed back to August 1, 2017. An additional two weeks have been added to the deadline extension because the ITA was down for two weeks in August due to concerns that data might have been compromised. Therefore, covered establishmetns have until December 15, 2017 to submit the required 2016 workplace injuries and illnesses data electronically via the ITA. Establishments with 250 or more employees that are currently required to keep OSHA injury and illness records must electronically submit the data contained within the following three forms:

OSHA Form 300 (Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses),
OSHA Form 300A (Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses), and
OSHA Form 301 (Injury and Illness Incident Report).

Establishments with 20-249 employees that are classified in certain industries with historically high rates of occupational injuries and illnesses must electronically submit the data contained within the following one form:

OSHA Form 300A (Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses).

Data from 2016 must be electronically submitted before December 15, 2017 and data from 2017 must be electronically submitted before July 1, 2018. Thereafter, the required data must be submitted before March 2 of the following year (e.g., data from 2018 must be submitted before March 2, 2019). As of November 24, 2017, covered establishments in the following states are not required to submit their summary data through the ITA because the OSHA-approved State Plans in these states have not yet adopted the requirement to submit injury and illness reports electronically: CA, MD, MN, SC, UT, WA and WY. OSHA has provided instructions at the following website: https://www.osha.gov/injuryreporting/. Source: Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses: Delay of Compliance Date, 82 Fed. Reg. 55,761 (Nov. 24, 2017), https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/11/24/2017-25392/improve-tracking-of-workplace-injuries-and-illnesses-delay-of-compliance-date.

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OSHA Extends Deadline for Electronic Submission of 2016 Injury and Illness Data to Dec. 15, 2017

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