Although OSHA’s new reporting rule has been in effect for almost seven months now, it has caused some major changes in the way that OSHA operates. Since the new reporting rule went into effect on January 1, 2015, OSHA has received more than 5,000 reports of work-related deaths, inpatient hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye. As OSHA anticipated, compliance with the rule has focused the agency’s attention on industries and hazards that it had not focused on before. For example, because of the unexpectedly high number of reports of amputations from supermarkets ...
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