Workers’ Compensation


From the June 1997 issue of Sidebar, (a magazine for lawyers).

If you are injured on-the-job or have some other employment health or safety issue, the Department of Labor has put together a page for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). From this site, you have access to myriad resources, including relevant statutes, regulations, standards, and interpretation memos and letters, all of which are fully word searchable. One feature is OSHA’s Establishment Search page. From this page, you can enter the name of any company and access all OSHA site visit reports from 1973 to the present. These reports list all OSHA violations by standard number, including all injuries and fatalities. General statistics and data on work-related accidents can also be accessed. OSHA’s standard interpretations and compliance letters can be accessed through their database, which is fully word searchable, or by standard number, if you already know the number of the standard in which you are interested. OSHA also has a portion of its site divided into subject matter.

So if you are interested in general construction, commercial diving or health care-related issues (just to name a few), you can see what OSHA has collected on these subjects, as well as find links to other sites on the Internet on these subjects.