Injury log for an employee hurt at another company facility

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November 13, 1992

Ms. Joan L. Davis, RN, MS
[Recipient address omitted]
Dear Ms. Davis:

Thank you for your letter dated October 21 requesting an interpretation of the OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping requirements. For employees who normally report to one location but are injured or become ill at another of the employer's establishments where they are temporarily working, a recordable case would be entered on the Log of the establishment in which they were injured or became ill. For the example in your letter, the case should be recorded on the California Log. This guidance can be found in Q&A A-10 on page 20 of the Recordkeeping Guidelines for Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. The reasoning behind this interpretation lies with the purpose of the OSHA Log 200, to present an accurate picture of the injury and illness history of the establishment to which it pertains.

Length of time and type of training are immaterial in deciding on which log to enter a recordable case. However, it is necessary that the establishment in question be in the same corporate structure as the employee's home establishment. The above concept only applies to multiple establishments of the same company. An "employee's" recordable injury or illness is not to be entered on the Log of another employer.

I hope you find this information useful. If you have any further questions, please contact my staff at Area Code (202) 219-6463.

Sincerely,
Stephen A. Newell
Director Office of Statistics

[Requester letter reproduced on OSHA page; omitted here.]