WH 385 Certification for Serious Injury or Illness of Current Form

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in 2021, 5,190 workers were killed on the job and an estimated 2.6 million were injured or became ill. These fatalities are not just statistics. Each one was a life whose loss will leave a lasting impact on their friends, families and communities. To reduce these alarming numbers, we need to better understand them. That is why the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has taken action to improve how we track workplace injuries and illnesses. This week we issued a final rule that makes more injury data available from workplaces in certain high hazard industries to a modern electronic reporting platform. Having more information electronically available about injuries and illnesses in the nation's workplaces will provide more opportunities to educate and inform workers and will provide employers, researchers and stakeholders with the ability to make valuable insights and inform decisions about safety and health trends so they can intervene before more illnesses or fatal injuries o