Utah uses federal OSHA forms. Utah has slightly different requirements from the federal rules for recordkeeping, as provided below.
Click on the following links to view the state and federal regulations regarding injury and illness reporting:
Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting
Citations
Utah Administrative Code Title R614, R614-1-4 and R614-1-7. Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
Federal: 29 CFR 1904
Reporting injuries within eight hours
Each employer must, within 8 hours, notify the Division of Utah Occupational Safety and Health of the Commission of:
The contact number is (801) 530-6901.
Tools, equipment, materials or other evidence that might pertain to the cause of such accident must not be removed or destroyed until so authorized by the Labor Commission or one of its Compliance Officers.
The federal rule at 29 CFR 1904.39 requires employers to report to OSHA any work-related fatalities, in-patient hospitalizations, amputations, or losses of an eye.
Submitting injury reports within seven days
Each employer must file a report with the Labor Commission within seven days after an injury or occupational disease, or after the employers’ first knowledge of the occurrence, on forms prescribed by the Commission. This covers any work-related fatality, injury, or occupational disease resulting in medical treatment, loss of consciousness, loss of work, restriction of work, or transfer to another job. Each employer must file a subsequent report of any previously reported injury or occupational disease that later resulted in death. The subsequent report must be filed within seven days following the death or the employer’s first knowledge or notification of the death.
No report is required for:
Each employer must provide the employee with a copy of the report submitted to the Commission. The employer shall also provide the employee with a statement, as prepared by the Commission, of his rights and responsibilities related to the industrial injury or occupational disease.
Accident investigations
Each employer must investigate (or cause to be investigated) all work-related injuries and occupational diseases, as well as any sudden or unusual occurrence or change of conditions that pose an unsafe or unhealthful exposure to employees.
Recording time frame
Utah requires that all injuries be recorded within six days. The federal rule allows seven days.
Each employer must have available for inspection at each establishment within 6 working days after receiving information that a recordable case has occurred, a supplementary record for that establishment. The record must be completed in the detail prescribed in the instructions accompanying federal OSHA Form No. 301, Utah Industrial Accidents Form 122. Workers’ compensation, insurance, or other reports are acceptable alternative records if they contain the information required by the federal OSHA Form No. 301, Utah Industrial Accidents Form 122. If no acceptable alternative record is maintained for other purposes, Federal OSHA Form No. 301, Utah Industrial Accidents Form 122 shall be used or the necessary information shall be otherwise maintained.
Access to records
The log and summary of all recordable occupational injuries and illnesses shall, upon request, be made available by the employer to any employee, former employee, and to their representatives for examination and copying in a reasonable manner and at reasonable times. The employee, former employee, and their representatives shall have access to the log for any establishment in which the employee is or has been employed.
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to preclude employees and employee representatives from collectively bargaining to obtain access to information relating to occupational injuries and illnesses in addition to the information made available under this section.