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More Timely Advice On OSHA’s New Rules In mid-September of 2014, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced new recordkeeping and reporting requirements for U.S. employers effective Jan. 1, 2015. The changes to recordkeeping only affect a few employers, but the changes to the reporting requirements could have a profound affect on cotton gins. While OSHA considers cotton gins agriculture for safety standards, we are still covered by the recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the law. This means that work-related injuries and illnesses must be recorded, and some must be reported directly to OSHA. The newly finalized rule changes what industries have to keep records and what has to be reported directly and how soon. A few small and relatively safe industries are no longer required to keep injury and illness records under the new rule. Cotton gins were not exempted. For the past several years, OSHA has had a reporting requirement that said any fatality or catastrophic accident must be reported to OSHA within eight hours. A catastrophic accident was defined as three or more employees being hospitalized (in-patient) for the same incident. The new rule greatly expands what must be reported and changes the time frame in which the employer must notify OSHA. Beginning Jan. 1, 2015, any workrelated fatality must be reported to OSHA within eight hours of the death. Any work-related in-patient hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye must be reported to OSHA within 24 hours of the medical procedure. Amputations include loss of a limb or appendage that has been severed or cut off in the accident or lost due to irreparable damage in an incident and includes the loss of the tip of a finger whether or not there was bone loss. It does not include other severe trauma such as degloving or avulsions (loss of tissue ripped away from the limb). It also doesn’t consider loss of an ear, chipping of teeth or scalping as amputations, but these
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injuries could result in an admission to the hospital for in-patient treatment, which would cause the need to report anyway. As mentioned above, any admission to a hospital for in-patient treatment must also be reported to OSHA within 24 hours of the admission and the employers’ notification of the admission. An admission to the hospital purely for observation or diagnostic testing is not considered treatment and therefore not reportable. That being said, if the treatment goes further than observation or testing and becomes treatment, then the clock starts and it must be reported. If the fatality or admission to the hospital or amputation doesn’t occur right away, you may not be required to report it. A fatality that occurs more than 30 days after an incident or an amputation or hospitalization that occurs more than 24 hours after the accident are not required to be reported to OSHA, but they will still be recorded on the OSHA 300 log. Your local Ginners Associations are here to help. They will likely be your first source of information and can help you find answers to specific questions. Feel free to contact them on any other issue you feel important. That’s why we’re here.
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Dusty Findley of the Southeastern Cotton Ginners’ Association contributed this article. Contact him at dusty@southern-southeastern.org.
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