New OSHA Requirement Nets 10,388 Injury Reports

Employers reported more than 10,000 severe work-related injuries in 2015 under a new requirement from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Since Jan. 1, 2015, OSHA has required employers to report any severe work-related injury — defined as a hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye — within 24 hours. A requirement to report a workplace fatality within eight hours didn’t change. In the program’s first year, employers reported 10,388 severe injuries, including 7,636 hospitalizations and 2,644 amputations, according to an OSHA report. OSHA sa...