Ruling as to whether blank OSHA-200 logs must be maintained at each jobsite where no recordable injuries or illnesses have occurred.

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APR 17 1989

Mr. D.L. Martin
Safety Director Fischbach Corporation
P.O. Box 59387
2525 Walnut Hill Lane
Dallas, Texas 75229

Dear Mr. Martin:

U.S. Postal Service's equivalent to the OSHA 200 form.

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June 7, 1999

Mr. Jerry A. Jones
Manager, Risk Management
United States Postal Service
475 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20260

Dear Mr. Jones:

Thank you for your May 6, 1999 letter requesting review of the U.S. Postal Service's computer-generated log of injuries and illnesses for equivalency with the OSHA 200, Log and Summary of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. To meet the requirements of the injury and illness recordkeeping regulations in 29 CFR Part 1904, an acceptable equivalent form must satisfy the following two conditions:

Warehouse facility considered separate establishment requiring separate OSHA 200 Log.

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April 14, 1998

Michael Stevens
Safety Coordinator
Moore Response Marketing Services
2660 South Broadway
P.O. Box 19050
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54307-9050

Dear Mr. Stevens:

Thank you for your letter of January 29 to John Miles asking for a clarification of OSHA's injury and illness recording and reporting regulations (Part 1904 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations) for a shared warehouse. Your letter was forwarded to OSHA's Office of Statistics, which is responsible for interpreting the 1904 regulations.

All injuries/illnesses that result in days away from work are recordable.

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June 26, 2000

Gemma S. Calimeri
Senior Methods Specialist
Lucent Technologies
475 South Street
Morristown, New Jersey 07962

Dear Ms. Calimeri:

Proper recording of hearing loss on the OSHA Log 200.

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January 6, 1993

 

MEMORANDUM FOR:     GILBERT J. SAULTER
                   Regional Administrator, Region VI

ATTENTION:          JEFF RUCKER
                   Regional Recordkeeping Coordinator

THRU: LEO CAREY Director Office of Field Operations

FROM: STEPHEN A. NEWELL Director Office of Statistics

SUBJECT: Recordkeeping Interpretation - Hoechst Celanese Corporation