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COTTON FARMING IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE GINNING INDUSTRY.
OSHA Changes Rule On Injury Reporting The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has rather abruptly issued a new rule, changing the requirements for reporting injuries and fatalities. Under the old rule, employers were required to notify OSHA within eight hours of the event if they had a workplace-related fatality, or if a workplace accident resulted in the hospitalization of three or more employees. The requirement for fatalities has remained essentially the same under the new rules, but requirements for reporting injuries have changed significantly. First of all, they have changed the time requirement for reporting injuries. You have 24 hours from the time you learn of an injury to report it. On the other hand, you now have to report any time a single worker is hospitalized for treatment due to a work-related injury. In addition, any eye loss must be reported, as well as any amputation. The amputation requirement is where the real issues begin. When OSHA originally proposed this updated reporting requirement, it had used a definition of amputation that required the loss of bone before an injury would count as an amputation. This rule was sent out for public comment in 2011 and was then left dormant. Last month, OSHA suddenly issued the final rule, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2015. The big surprise comes when you read the final rule carefully and discover that the definition of amputation has been changed to one that does not require loss of bone or hospitalization. So, now that the rule is final, the loss of a fingertip or tip of a toe without any bone loss or hospitalization is supposed to be reported to OSHA, according to this updated final rule. In the final rule, OSHA stated that there were 14 hospitalization incidents reported in 2010 under the old rule. The agency is estimating there will be between 66,000 and 100,000 injuries reported per year under the new rule. Stay tuned as employers and our
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associations work to figure out how to work with these new definitions, but be aware that starting in 2015, most employers will find themselves having to report fairly minor injuries to OSHA. There is always the chance that someone will decide to challenge this rule in court, but most of the experts seem to think that a challenge would be difficult. On the other hand, it remains to be seen what OSHA will do with the increase in reports. If it receives the numbers being predicted, it is hard to imagine how the agency will find the time to read them all, much less actually respond to each one.
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Our precision CNC fabricating equipment enables us to produce the highest quality gin brushes and channel saws at a very competitive price. When it comes to our products, we use only the highest quality “Made in the USA” raw materials available. We know gin machinery and the conditions in which it has to perform, and our brushes and channel saws are manufactured to an exacting standard for the modern cotton gin.
Kelley Green of the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association contributed this article. Contact him at kelley@tcga.org.
Cotton’s Calendar Nov. 11-12 – Pink Bollworm Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz. Nov. 11-14 – CCI Sourcing Summit, Scottsdale, Ariz. Nov. 12-13 – CI Crop Mgt. Seminar, Tifton, Ga. Nov. 19 – PCCA Board meeting, Lubbock, Texas. Dec. 2-3 – Boll Weevil Action Comm. – Little Rock, Ark. Dec. 9-11 – Cotton Board meeting – St. Petersburg, Fla. Dec. 17 – Staplcotn Board Meeting, Greenwood, Miss. Jan. 5-7 – BWCC, San Antonio, Texas. Jan. 14 – PCG Quarterly Meeting, Lubbock, Texas. Jan. 14-16 – Cotton/Rice Conference, Baton Rouge, La.
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