OSHA Sends 14,600 Letters to Hazardous Employers

Released June 9, 2011

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has identified and sent letters to approximately 14,600 workplaces with the highest occupational injury and illness rates and is urging the employers to take action to remove hazards causing the high rates.

The employers are those whose establishments are covered by federal OSHA regulations and reported the highest “days away from work, restricted work or job transfer injury and illness” rates to OSHA in a survey of 2009 injury and illness data. For every 100 full-time workers, the employers had 2.5 or more injuries or illnesses which resulted in days away from work, restricted work or job transfer. The national average is 1.8.