Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Recordable events

DOE-STD-1190-2007

Diagnostic information will be abstracted from the medical clinic's return-to-work

clearance form if applicable. The program does not require a personal physician's

report; the worker's self-reported reason for absence is sufficient. This information

will be used by trained nosologists at the Data Center to determine the proper

International Classification of Disease, 9th Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-

CM) codes for the health event in a standardized manner. A narrative description of

the diagnoses is preferred. Sites that code their diagnostic data using the ICD9-CM

codes submit only the coded information to the Data Center. If the Data Center's

quality assurance procedures indicate that the site-coded diagnoses do not differ from

the Data Center's codes, consideration will be given to allowing sites to submit the

ICD-9-CM codes in lieu of text. The level of agreement between site-generated ICD-

9-CM codes and those assigned by the Data Center's nosologists will be assessed

periodically as part of the program's quality assurance process.

ome sites consider the reporting of the specific date an absence began and the return

to work date to be too explicit to conform to HIPAA privacy requirements. In lieu of

these dates, they calculate and report the duration of absence and provide a less precise

indication of the dates such as the month and year, but not the day of the event. If

needed to satisfy site-specific legal requirements, alternative reporting formats can be

arranged in consultation with the Data Center.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Recordable events.

These data include all illnesses and injuries that are considered recordable as defined

by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and 29 CFR Part 1904. OSHA-

recordable events are those that occur on the job and involve: (1) fatalities, regardless

of time between injury and death, or the length of illness; (2) cases other than fatalities

that result in lost workdays; and (3) nonfatal cases without lost workdays that result in

transfer to another job or termination of employment, or require medical treatment

other than first aid or involve loss of consciousness or restriction of work or motion.