aptitude.title 🇺🇸 United States · OSHA · 29 CFR 1904
OSHA 300 Recordable Assessment
Determine whether a work-related injury or illness is OSHA-recordable (29 CFR 1904.7), which forms apply (300 Log / 301 / 300A) and whether a severe-event report is due. Recordability is the employer's legal duty; the physician determines the level of medical treatment.
⚡ Time-critical: report fatalities within 8 hours and inpatient hospitalizations, amputations or eye loss within 24 hours to OSHA (1-800-321-OSHA / osha.gov/report) — 29 CFR 1904.39.
Under the physician's clinical judgement
- OSHA recordability is the employer's legal duty; the physician determines whether treatment exceeds first aid.
- Privacy protections for sensitive diagnoses (HIV, mental health, sexual assault): keep the name off the 300 Log; maintain a separate confidential list.
- The Sharps Injury Log is a separate requirement (29 CFR 1910.1030(h)(5)).
- HIPAA + state privacy overlays; OSHA medical-records retention 30 years (1910.1020). No patient data stored.
- Cross-ref: bloodborne exposure (PEP) · workers' comp.