If you have a fatality or a serious injury that requires the hospitalization of employees, new OSHA rules will require employers to file detailed reports within eight hours for a fatality and 24 hours for serious nonfatal injuries.
 
The new rules, announced earlier this month, will take effect on Jan. 1, 2015.
 
“We can and we must do more to keep America’s workers safe and healthy,” Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez said in a statement quoted in an online news article. “Workplace injuries and fatalities are absolutely preventable, and these new requirements will help ...