In the first year of a new reporting requirement, employers notified the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of more than 10,000 severe work-related injuries.
Beginning January 2015, employers are required to report any severe work-related injury - defined as a hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye - within 24 hours. The requirement that an employer report a workplace fatality within eight hours remains in force.