How to fill out OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 forms step by step

Last updated 2026-07-09

Who has to fill out OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 forms?

Most private-sector employers with 10 or more employees have to keep OSHA injury and illness records under 29 CFR Part 1904 ^[1]. That threshold is a firm number, not a guideline. If your company had fewer than 10 employees at all times during the previous calendar year, you are exempt from routine recordkeeping. You still have to report any fatality or inpatient hospitalization to OSHA within the required timeframes.

A second exemption runs by industry. Employers in certain low-hazard industries, including many retail, finance, and service sectors, are partially exempt even with 10 or more employees ^[1]. OSHA lists the partially exempt North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes in Appendix A of Subpart B of Part 1904. Check your primary NAICS code against that list before you assume anything.

State Plan states can run rules that differ from federal OSHA. California, Michigan, Washington, and others operate their own programs, and some carry stricter recordkeeping thresholds or electronic submission rules ^[2]. If you work in a State Plan state, check with that state's occupational safety agency on top of the federal rules.

Here is what trips people up. The forms cover your employees, not contractors. If a staffing agency worker gets hurt at your site, the employer who supervises the day-to-day work usually records the case. OSHA's 2001 final rule is clear that supervision and control, not who cuts the paycheck, decides who records it ^[1].

What is a recordable injury or illness under OSHA rules?

A work-related injury or illness is recordable when it causes any one of these: death, days away from work, restricted work or job transfer, medical treatment beyond first aid, loss of consciousness, or a significant injury or illness diagnosed by a healthcare professional ^[1]. That last bucket catches cancer, chronic irreversible disease, or a fractured bone even when none of the other triggers apply.

The phrase "beyond first aid" does real work here. OSHA defines first aid in 29 CFR 1904.7, and the list runs longer than most people expect. It covers over-the-counter medications at nonprescription strength, wound closures with butterfly bandages or Steri-Strips, hot or cold therapy, non-rigid supports, and several other treatments. If a doctor visit happens but the only treatment given fits that first aid list, the case is not recordable ^[1].

Work-relatedness is its own test. An injury is work-related when an event or exposure in the work environment caused or contributed to the condition, or significantly aggravated a pre-existing one ^[1]. The work environment includes the physical location plus any equipment or materials the employee uses. Commuting to work is not the work environment. Driving a company vehicle on a work errand is.

Two recordability errors come up over and over. Employers treat prescription medication as a clear trigger but forget that a first-time prescription-strength ibuprofen order after an incident counts even if the employee never fills it. And employers confuse "reported to OSHA" (severity-based, like hospitalizations) with "recorded on Form 300" (a much lower threshold). Different obligations. Different deadlines.

For a deeper look at building the broader incident documentation process, see our guide to incident report writing.

How do you fill out OSHA Form 301 step by step?

Form 301 is the Injury and Illness Incident Report. Treat it as the intake form for each individual case. You have to complete it within 7 calendar days of learning that a recordable case happened ^[1]. Many employers use a workers' compensation First Report of Injury form instead, and that is fine as long as it captures every field OSHA asks for.

Here is how to fill out each section:

Employee information (boxes 1-6). Enter the employee's full name, address, date of birth, date hired, and sex. This part is mechanical. One note: the form asks for date of hire, not tenure. Pull it from HR records rather than guessing.

Physician and health care professional (boxes 7-10). Record the name and address of the treating provider and the facility. If the employee got treated in an emergency room or hospitalized overnight, say so. Box 10 asks whether the employee was hospitalized overnight as an in-patient. That triggers a separate OSHA reporting duty (call OSHA's 800 number or report online within 24 hours), so flag it clearly ^[1].

Case information (boxes 11-18). This is where most of the work lives. Box 11 asks for the date of injury or onset of illness. Box 12 asks what time the employee started work that day. Box 13 asks the time the event occurred if known. Box 14 asks what the employee was doing right before the incident, including the activity and any tools or equipment. Write something concrete: "operating a 48-inch bandsaw to cut plywood sheets" beats "working in the shop." Box 15 asks what happened. Describe the sequence: what occurred, in what order, with what result. Box 16 asks for the injury or illness, the specific body part, and whether it was an injury or illness. Box 17 asks what object or substance directly harmed the employee. Box 18 asks for the date of death if it applies.

For the illness boxes, check one of the six illness type categories OSHA provides. Skin disorders, respiratory conditions, poisoning, hearing loss, and all other illnesses each get a checkbox. Many employers leave this blank. OSHA looks for it.

Keep completed Form 301s on file for 5 years after the end of the calendar year they cover ^[1]. They hold medical information and stay confidential. Employees, former employees, and their personal representatives can access their own Form 301 by the end of the next business day after the request ^[1].

How do you fill out OSHA Form 300 step by step?

Form 300 is the Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses. You maintain it all year, adding each new recordable case as it happens or as you learn of it. There is no single date by which every entry must land, other than the 7-day deadline per case.

The columns match the recordability criteria one for one. Here is the walkthrough:

Column A: Case number. Assign a sequential number. It links back to the matching Form 301. Some employers use the workers' compensation claim number, which works fine as long as it stays unique to each case.

Column B: Employee's name. Full name. If the case involves a privacy concern (see below), write "privacy case" here and leave the name off.

Column C: Job title. The employee's regular job title, not the task they happened to be doing. "Forklift operator" rather than "loading dock worker."

Column D: Date of injury or onset of illness. For acute injuries, use the incident date. For illnesses that build over time, OSHA guidance says to use the date you determined the case was recordable ^[1].

Column E: Where the event occurred. The physical location. Be specific: "Warehouse aisle 3" rather than "warehouse." If the employee worked offsite, note it.

Column F: Describe the injury or illness, the part of the body affected, and the object or substance involved. Aim for one clear sentence. Example: "Sprained right wrist when employee slipped on wet floor near loading dock door."

Columns G-L: Injury or illness classification. Check one box: (G) Injury, (H) Skin disorder, (I) Respiratory condition, (J) Poisoning, (K) Hearing loss, (L) All other illnesses. Most entries land in (G).

Columns M1-M4: Outcome. These checkboxes capture the result of the case. Check all that apply:

• M1: Death
• M2: Days away from work
• M3: Job transfer or restriction
• M4: Other recordable cases (none of the above outcomes, but still recordable by another criterion)

Then enter the number of calendar days away from work and the number of days on restricted work or job transfer in the day-count columns. Count calendar days, not workdays. If the employee is still out at year end, estimate the remaining days and update the log when the case resolves ^[1].

Privacy cases. OSHA makes you withhold the employee's name from the 300 log for certain sensitive case types: injuries to an intimate body part or the reproductive system, sexual assaults, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, or tuberculosis ^[1]. Keep a separate confidential list of names so you can match them to case numbers if OSHA asks.

You must make the 300 log available to employees, former employees, employee representatives, and OSHA by the end of the next business day after a request ^[1]. Post it? No. But access on demand is not optional.

How do you fill out OSHA Form 300A, and when do you post it?

Form 300A is the Annual Summary. It totals the numbers from your Form 300 for the prior calendar year. You complete it once a year, and a company executive has to certify it with a signature ^[1].

Here is how to fill it out:

Establishment information. At the top, enter your company name, establishment name if different, street address, city, state, ZIP, NAICS code, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code if known, and the year the summary covers. One establishment equals one 300A. Each location with employees gets its own set of forms.

Employment information. This section trips people up. You need the annual average number of employees and the total hours worked by all employees during the year. Get annual average employees by adding your total employee count for each pay period and dividing by the number of pay periods. Total hours worked includes overtime but excludes vacation, sick leave, and holidays. If your payroll software tracks hours, this is easy. If it does not, OSHA lets you estimate for salaried employees using 2,000 hours per full-time employee per year as a baseline ^[1].

Summary totals. Transfer the column totals straight from Form 300: total deaths, total days-away cases, total job transfer or restriction cases, total other recordable cases, total days away from work, total days of job transfer or restriction. Zero recordable cases means every box is zero. You still fill out and post the form.

Certifying signature. An owner, an officer, or the highest-ranking company official at the establishment has to sign and date the 300A ^[1]. A safety manager cannot sign unless they also hold one of those roles. The signature exists to put legal accountability on the accuracy of the numbers.

Posting. Post the completed 300A where employees can see it, from February 1 through April 30 each year ^[1]. A break room, time clock area, or main entrance bulletin board all work. It stays up the full three months even if nobody looks at it.

Electronic submission. Under the Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses rule, certain employers submit their 300A data through OSHA's Injury Tracking Application (ITA). Under the 2024 final rule published in the Federal Register, establishments with 100 or more employees in high-hazard industries must also submit their Form 300 and 301 data electronically each year ^[3]. The annual deadline is March 2 for prior-year data ^[3]. Establishments with 20 to 249 employees in certain high-hazard industries submit 300A data only. The ITA portal tells you which tier your NAICS code lands in ^[8].

What are the deadlines for each OSHA recordkeeping form?

Deadlines for these three forms are staggered, and missing them is one of the more common violations OSHA cites. Here is a table covering the key ones:

Form	Action	Deadline
Form 301	Complete after recordable case	Within 7 calendar days of learning of the case [1]
Form 300	Add each new entry	Within 7 calendar days of learning of the case [1]
Form 300A	Complete and post	Post by February 1; keep posted through April 30 [1]
Form 300A (electronic)	Submit via OSHA ITA	March 2 each year for prior-year data [3]
All three forms	Retain on file	5 years after the end of the calendar year they cover [1]
Fatality	Report to OSHA	Within 8 hours of learning of the fatality [1]
In-patient hospitalization, amputation, eye loss	Report to OSHA	Within 24 hours of learning of the event [1]

The 5-year retention rule matters. OSHA inspectors can request records going back that far, and if you cannot produce them, that is its own violation. Store them somewhere you will actually find them five years from now.

What are the most common mistakes employers make on these forms?

After reading through OSHA's published enforcement examples and interpretation letters, a handful of errors show up again and again.

Misclassifying restricted work days. Employers often fail to count light-duty or modified-work days as restricted work days on Form 300. If a doctor writes "no lifting over 20 pounds" and the employee returns to a modified job, those days count as restricted. Each calendar day of restriction goes in the restriction day-count column, even weekends the employee would not have worked ^[1].

Counting workdays instead of calendar days. OSHA counts calendar days for days away and restricted. A worker who goes out Thursday and returns Monday missed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. That is 3 days, not 1 ^[1].

Skipping musculoskeletal disorders. Carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and back strains caused or aggravated by work are recordable. Employers sometimes treat these as personal medical problems, especially when the employee is slow to connect them to work. If reasonable evidence points to work-relatedness, you record them.

Letting cases sit unresolved. If an employee is still out at year end, make your best estimate of remaining days away, record it, then update the log in the new year when the case closes. Many employers skip the year-end estimate or forget to circle back.

The wrong person signing the 300A. The safety director signs it, but the safety director is not an officer of the company. That is a violation under 29 CFR 1904.32(b)(3), which requires "a company executive" to certify ^[1]. The regulation defines that executive as an owner, an officer of the corporation, the highest-ranking company official at the establishment, or that official's supervisor.

Missing the posting window. The 300A goes up by February 1. Some employers post it in March when someone finally asks where it is. February 1 is a hard date.

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What injuries and illnesses do you NOT record on these forms?

Some cases look recordable but are specifically excluded under 29 CFR 1904.5 ^[1]. Knowing these keeps you from overcounting.

Top of the exclusion list: the work environment was only the setting for an event caused wholly by a personal health condition. A worker who has a heart attack at work with no contributing work factor does not go on the log. If work exertion set off the heart attack, that analysis changes.

Voluntary participation in a wellness program or a medical, fitness, or recreational activity is excluded. Hurt a knee playing in the company softball league? Not recordable.

Eating and drinking your own personal food causes injuries that are not recordable, unless the employer provided the food or drink. A mouth burned by coffee the employer set out in a break room could be recordable if it leads to medical treatment beyond first aid. This one rarely comes up, but it is in the regulation.

Personal grooming, self-medication for a non-work condition, and intentional self-harm are all excluded ^[1].

Motor vehicle crashes in a parking lot during a commute are excluded. The same crash in a parking lot during the workday for a work purpose is work-related.

Mental illness is excluded unless a licensed healthcare professional confirms it is work-related and the employee voluntarily asks that it be recorded ^[1].

Common colds and flu are excluded. A seasonal bug is not work-related just because the employee caught it at work. COVID-19 got specific treatment in OSHA guidance in 2020 and 2021 as a recordable illness when work-related, though that guidance has shifted since ^[4].

How do you handle privacy cases on the OSHA 300 log?

OSHA names six categories of cases where the employee's name comes off the 300 log to protect privacy ^[1]. They are:

1. An injury or illness to an intimate body part or the reproductive system 2. An injury or illness from a sexual assault 3. Mental illness 4. HIV infection, hepatitis, or tuberculosis 5. Needlestick injuries and cuts from sharp objects contaminated with another person's blood or other potentially infectious material 6. Other illnesses where the employee independently and voluntarily asks that their name stay off

For all of these, write "privacy case" in column B where the name would go. Keep a separate, confidential list matching the case number to the actual name. Store that list away from the 300 log. If OSHA requests the 300 log, they get it with "privacy case" entries. They can request the confidential list separately under their authority, but it stays out of general employee access.

Employees can see the 300 log (minus privacy case names). They cannot access other employees' Form 301 records. The only people with access rights to an individual's Form 301 are the employee, a personal representative the employee designates in writing, and authorized government officials ^[1].

Who can see your OSHA 300 and 301 records, and what are your obligations?

Three groups have defined access rights under 29 CFR 1904.35 ^[1].

Current and former employees, plus their personal representatives, can request access to injury and illness records. For the 300 log, you provide access by the end of the next business day after the request. For Form 301, current and former employees can see their own record by the end of the next business day. An employee representative can see a Form 301 only in limited circumstances, and usually with identifying information stripped for other employees.

Authorized employee representatives, meaning a union rep or an employee formally designated to examine records, can access the 300 log on the same next-business-day timeline.

OSHA representatives can access your records during an inspection or investigation. You are required to hand them over.

Here is something that catches employers off guard. You have to tell new employees, at hiring, about the recordkeeping rules and how to report a work-related injury or illness ^[1]. You do not have to hand them a copy of the regulations, but they need to know the records exist and how to reach them.

If you are building out broader safety documentation, our articles on hazard communication and lockout tagout cover two program areas where recordable injuries are common.

What are the penalties for not keeping OSHA 300 records correctly?

OSHA cites recordkeeping violations under 29 CFR Part 1904, often as serious violations. The maximum penalty for a serious violation is $16,550 per violation as of the January 2024 adjustments, with OSHA raising penalties every year for inflation under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 ^[5]. Willful or repeated violations carry a maximum of $165,514 per violation as of the same period ^[5].

In practice, OSHA usually finds recordkeeping violations during inspections triggered by other complaints or incidents. An inspector who shows up for a fall hazard complaint will almost certainly pull your 300 log too. Missing, incomplete, or an unsigned 300A becomes an additional citation item on top of any substantive safety violation.

Failing to post the 300A during the February 1 through April 30 window is a specific, citable violation. So is failing to give employees access to records within the required timeframe.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates private-sector employers report roughly 2.6 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses a year ^[6]. Under-recording is a documented problem, and OSHA has investigated industries and employers with suspiciously low recordable rates. Under-recording carries the same penalty exposure as over-recording, and enforcement has treated it more harshly because it hides hazards from workers.

The regulation is blunt: employers must not "discourage or discriminate against employees for reporting work-related injuries or illnesses" under 29 CFR 1904.35(b)(1)(i) ^[1]. Incentive programs that reward zero injuries or punish employees for recording cases can be violations on their own.

How do you handle multi-establishment employers and remote workers?

If your business runs out of more than one physical location, the rules require a separate set of forms for each establishment expected to operate for one year or longer ^[1]. A pop-up event tent is not an establishment. A satellite office with assigned employees that has run for over a year probably is.

For employees who work at multiple locations, record the case at the establishment the employee reports to or is based from. Field employees who report to a central office but work at various customer sites get recorded at the home office, assuming that is where they are administratively managed.

Remote workers are a newer challenge that OSHA has addressed in letters of interpretation. Work-from-home injuries are work-related when the injury happens while the employee is doing work for the employer and in the home work area ^[4]. OSHA does not make you inspect employee home offices, and you are not liable for home conditions unrelated to work. An employee who trips over a pet while getting coffee is not recordable. The same employee who drops a company monitor on their foot while setting up a work call probably is. The line is genuine work activity versus incidental home activity.

If you are still figuring out the bigger picture of what an OSHA compliance program needs to look like, start with what the agency covers and how it enforces its standards.

What is the easiest way to set up your OSHA recordkeeping system from scratch?

OSHA gives you the official blank forms for free on its website ^[7]. Download, print, and fill them out by hand, or use any recordkeeping software that captures every required field. There is no rule that you use the official OSHA form, as long as an equivalent captures the same data.

A practical setup for a small employer:

First, confirm your NAICS code and check whether you are covered. Do this before anything else, because an exempt employer does not maintain the forms at all (though you still report severe injuries).

Second, name one person to receive injury reports and complete the forms. That person needs to know the 7-day deadline, what first aid means under OSHA's definition, and how to judge work-relatedness.

Third, build a simple way for employees to report injuries right away. The faster the report, the more accurately you can fill out the forms. Late reports lead to incomplete Form 301s and late 300 log entries.

Fourth, set a calendar reminder for January 31 to complete and certify the 300A, and another for April 30 to take it down from the bulletin board. Add March 2 if you have electronic submission duties.

Fifth, keep all records where you can find them in five years. A shared drive folder organized by year works fine. Physical binders work too, just back them up.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I have to fill out OSHA 300 forms if I had zero injuries last year?

Yes. If you are a covered employer (10 or more employees, non-exempt industry), you still complete and post Form 300A even with zero recordable cases. Every box shows zero. The form still needs a company executive signature and still gets posted February 1 through April 30. Skipping it because nothing happened is one of the most common small employer violations OSHA finds.

Can I use our workers' compensation forms instead of OSHA Form 301?

Yes. OSHA lets you substitute a workers' compensation First Report of Injury or equivalent for Form 301, as long as the substitute holds every information field OSHA's 301 requires. Compare your state's standard First Report form against OSHA's 301 fields before you rely on it. Most state forms cover the basics but may miss the employer-specific fields OSHA wants.

What counts as days away from work for the OSHA 300 log?

Days away from work are calendar days the employee could not come in because of the work-related injury or illness, starting the day after the incident. Count every calendar day, including weekends and holidays, even days the employee would not have worked anyway. If the employee is still out when the year ends, estimate the remaining days, record the estimate, and update the log when the case closes.

Who is considered a company executive for signing the OSHA 300A?

OSHA defines company executive under 29 CFR 1904.32(b)(3) as: an owner of a sole proprietorship or partnership; an officer of the corporation; the highest-ranking company official at the establishment; or the immediate supervisor of that official. A safety manager who is not a corporate officer cannot sign unless they hold one of those roles. The signature carries legal accountability for the summary's accuracy.

How do I record a case where the diagnosis comes weeks after the incident?

Record the case within 7 calendar days of the date you learned it was recordable, which may be the date the physician's diagnosis came back, not the original incident date. In column D of Form 300, use the date of injury or onset of illness (the actual event or exposure date), not the diagnosis date. The 7-day clock starts when you have enough information to know the case is recordable.

Does a COVID-19 case at work need to go on the OSHA 300 log?

COVID-19 is a recordable illness when it is work-related and meets the general recordability criteria, like days away from work or medical treatment. OSHA issued enforcement guidance in 2020 and updated it in 2021, acknowledging how hard it is to establish work-relatedness for a community-spread illness. Employers make a reasonable, good-faith work-relatedness determination. OSHA does not hold you to a strict standard where the work environment is not clearly the source.

What is the OSHA Injury Tracking Application and do I have to use it?

The Injury Tracking Application (ITA) is OSHA's online portal for electronic submission of recordkeeping data. Establishments with 100 or more employees in high-hazard industries must submit their Form 300, 300A, and 301 data electronically by March 2 each year under the 2024 final rule. Establishments with 20 to 249 employees in certain high-hazard industries submit 300A data only. Check OSHA's ITA site to confirm which tier your NAICS code falls into.

How long do I have to keep OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 forms?

You retain all three forms for 5 years following the end of the calendar year they cover. Records from calendar year 2024 must be kept through the end of 2029. During those 5 years, you update the 300 log if cases change status, provide access to employees on request, and make records available to OSHA. After 5 years, no federal rule requires you to keep them, though your legal counsel may advise longer retention for litigation.

Do part-time and seasonal employees count for the 10-employee threshold?

Yes. OSHA counts all employees on your payroll, including part-time, seasonal, temporary, and salaried workers. The threshold is based on whether you had 10 or more employees at any one time during the previous calendar year. If your seasonal peak hits 10 or more even briefly, you are covered for that year. Workers from a temporary staffing agency are generally recorded by whichever employer controls their day-to-day work.

Can employees see each other's OSHA 300 and 301 records?

Employees can see the OSHA 300 log, which does not carry full details, and they can see their own Form 301. They cannot see another employee's Form 301. An authorized employee representative, like a union rep, can see the 300 log on request and can see Form 301s under limited circumstances with other employees' identifiers removed. Privacy case names stay off the 300 log for every viewer except authorized government officials.

What happens if I record a case that later turns out not to be recordable?

You can remove the entry or draw a line through it on the log once you determine the case was not work-related or does not meet the threshold. Add a note explaining the reason. Do not use correction fluid or destroy the original entry. The updated totals on your 300A should reflect only confirmed recordable cases. Good documentation of why you removed a case protects you if OSHA later questions it.

Is a needlestick injury always recordable?

A needlestick or cut from a sharp object contaminated with another person's blood or other potentially infectious material is always recordable regardless of whether medical treatment beyond first aid was given, under 29 CFR 1904.8. It is also always a privacy case, so the employee's name stays off the 300 log. This applies across all industries, not only healthcare. Any employee exposed to bloodborne pathogens through a sharps injury gets recorded.

Does hearing loss from workplace noise have to go on the OSHA 300 log?

Yes, if the hearing loss is work-related and meets the threshold in 29 CFR 1904.10. A standard threshold shift of 10 decibels or more averaged over 2,000, 3,000, and 4,000 Hz in one or both ears is recordable if the total hearing level is 25 dB or more above audiometric zero in the same frequencies. Age-corrected threshold shifts can remove non-work aging factors. If the shift stays work-related after correction, record it with "hearing loss" in the description column.

What do I write in the Form 300 description column to avoid OSHA questions?

Be specific: name the body part, the object or substance involved, and what happened in one or two sentences. 'Laceration to left index finger from box cutter while opening shipping carton' beats 'cut finger.' Vague entries like 'back injury' or 'slipped' draw scrutiny because they do not confirm work-relatedness or classify the case. An inspector or your own auditor should understand the case from the description alone, without opening Form 301.

Sources

1. OSHA, 29 CFR Part 1904 Recordkeeping Rule (full text and employer guidance): Requirements for Forms 300, 300A, and 301 including deadlines, retention, access rights, privacy cases, company executive signature, and first aid definition under 29 CFR 1904
2. OSHA, State Plans overview page: State Plan states may have recordkeeping requirements that differ from or are stricter than federal OSHA rules
3. OSHA, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses final rule and ITA electronic submission requirements: Establishments with 100 or more employees in high-hazard industries must submit Forms 300, 300A, and 301 data electronically by March 2 each year
4. OSHA, Recordkeeping standard interpretations (work-from-home and COVID-19 guidance): Work-from-home injuries are recordable when occurring during work activity; COVID-19 is recordable when work-related and meeting recordability criteria
5. OSHA, Penalties (annual civil penalty adjustments): Maximum penalty for a serious violation is $16,550 per violation; willful or repeated violations up to $165,514 per violation as of January 2024 adjustments
6. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program (Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses): Private-sector employers report approximately 2.6 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses annually
7. OSHA, Recordkeeping Forms download page (Forms 300, 300A, 301): OSHA provides official blank forms 300, 300A, and 301 for free download
8. OSHA, Injury Tracking Application (ITA) landing page: Electronic submission of recordkeeping data for covered establishments is completed through OSHA's ITA portal
9. OSHA, 29 CFR 1904.10 Recording criteria for cases involving occupational hearing loss: A standard threshold shift of 10 dB or more in hearing averaged at 2,000, 3,000, and 4,000 Hz combined with total hearing level of 25 dB or more is recordable
10. OSHA, Recordkeeping program page (coverage, partial exemptions, NAICS lookup): Employer obligations including coverage thresholds, partially exempt industries, and NAICS code lookup for recordkeeping applicability