OSHA Debuts Online Tracking of Injury Trends
- OSHA has launched an online tool that allows users to search its severe injury report database and view trends related to workplace injuries occurring in states covered by the federal agency.
- The Severe Injury Report dashboard enables users to search and download data by year, industry, state, establishment name, and Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System codes.
- The online tool includes information on all severe injuries reported by employers covered under the agency’s jurisdiction since 2015.
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NYC Launches Dashboard Tracking Employer Violations
- New York City has launched a dashboard that consolidates data from federal, state, and city enforcement agencies to identify employers who violated key labor laws across the city’s five boroughs.
- The dashboard is a project of the city Comptroller’s office.
- It tracks violations from 2020-2023, including workplace health and safety violations, wage theft, prevailing wage violations, and illegal interference with unionization efforts.
- It also has an annual “Employer Wall of Shame,” which highlights businesses that committed the most significant labor law violations in past years, identified based on the severity and frequency of the employer’s violations.
- Among those listed on the shame roster is Timeless Roofing Inc., described as the only New York City employer with back-to-back willful OSHA violations in 2022 and 2023.
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OSHA Retaliation Protection for Congressional Workers Back in Play
- Legislation that would afford congressional employees whistleblower protection has been reintroduced by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC).
- The Congress Leads by Example Act (H.R. 9420) would apply some of the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights’ latest recommendations for updating the Congressional Accountability Act to provide whistleblower and OSHA retaliation protections to legislative employees, and grants the office with subpoena authority to investigate alleged OSHA violations, according to Government Executive.
- The move has been endorsed by the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, the agency responsible for enforcing those various laws.
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