Legal questions delay implementation of
electronic reporting of injury data

Less than one week before its scheduled compliance date, OSHA officials delayed a new electronic recordkeeping rule that’s being challenged in more than one federal courtroom.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that the new compliance date would be December 1, giving OSHA five months more to review “questions of law and policy” pertaining to the rule finalized last year.

The rule would require about 466,000 employers nationwide to electronically file their Form 300A summaries of workplace injuries and illnesses with OSHA. It has been controversial in large part because employers dislike the idea that OSHA plans to publish some of their injury and illness data online.

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