(1) Purpose. This
rule requires employers to report certain work-related fatalities, injuries,
and
illnesses.
NOTE: Reporting a work-related injury, illness, or fatality
does not assign fault to anybody, does not prove the violation of an OSHA rule,
and does not establish the employee's eligibility for workers' compensation or
other benefits.
(2) Scope.
This standard covers all employers covered by the Oregon Safe Employment
Act.
(3) You must report fatalities
and catastrophes to Oregon OSHA only in
person or by telephone within 8 hours
of occurrence or
employer knowledge (reported to you or any of your agents) of
a fatality or
catastrophe:
(a) Fatalities. You
must report all work-related fatalities. You must report all fatalities caused
by a heart attack at work. Report a fatality only if death occurs within 30
days of the incident.
NOTE: Work-related fatalities include those caused by a motor
vehicle accident that happens during the employee's work shift.
(b) Catastrophe. A catastrophe is
an incident in which two or more employees are fatally injured, or three or
more employees are admitted to a hospital or an equivalent medical facility
(for example, a clinic) as a result of the same incident.
(4) You must report in-patient
hospitalizations, loss of an eye, and either amputations or avulsions that
result in bone loss, to Oregon OSHA within 24 hours after occurrence of the
work related incident or
employer knowledge (reported to you or any of your
agents) of the event. When an amputation, avulsion, or loss of an eye involves
in-patient hospitalization, you need only to make a single report.
(a) In-Patient Hospitalization. In-patient
hospitalization is the formal admission to the in-patient service of a hospital
or clinic for care or medical treatment (includes first-aid). Hospitalization
for observation only is not reportable, nor is emergency room treatment.
In-patient hospitalization for any reason after emergency room treatment is
reportable. You must report all incidents that result in in-patient
hospitalization, including heart attacks and motor vehicle accidents. Report
in-patient hospitalizations only if they occur within 24 hours of the incident
that caused the hospitalization.
(b) Loss of an eye. Report the loss of an eye
only if it occurs within 24 hours of the incident that caused the
loss.
(c) Amputations and
avulsions.
(A) An amputation is the traumatic
loss of a limb or other external body part, including a fingertip. Amputations
include loss of a body part due to a traumatic incident, a gunshot wound, and
medical amputations due to irreparable traumatic injuries.
(B) An avulsion is the tearing away or
forcible separation of any body part by trauma.
(C) Report an amputation or avulsion only if
it includes bone and/or cartilage loss.
(D) Report an amputation or avulsion only if
it occurs within 24 hours of the incident that caused the amputation or
avulsion.
NOTE: There are additional reporting requirements for injuries
relating to Mechanical Power Presses, 1910.217(g). Oregon OSHA Office locations
and telephone numbers are: Table 1 (attached).
Notes
Or. Admin. Code
§
437-001-0704
OHSA
2-2015, f. 3-18-15, cert. ef.
1/1/2016;
OSHA
5-2018, amend filed 11/29/2018, effective
12/17/2018
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
654.025(2)
& 656.726(4)
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
654.001 -
654.295
