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Cal/OSHA reporting software

California sites follow Cal/OSHA: serious injuries reported within 8 hours, the Form 5020 to the carrier, and the federal logs kept as well.

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What Cal/OSHA asks of you

Regulator logs and the deadline clocks Coming in Q1 2027

What goes on the record

A new work-related injury or illness that results in death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, loss of consciousness, or a significant injury or illness diagnosed by a physician or other licensed health care professional.

How it is kept

  • Within 7 days of learning of it, on the OSHA 300 log.
  • One record per establishment.
  • Names withheld on privacy cases.
  • Kept for 5 years.
  • Injury rates per 200,000 hours worked.
When Cal/OSHA or another body must be told
What happened Who is told When How
A work-related death, reported to the nearest Cal/OSHA district office. Cal/OSHA Within 8 hours of learning of it by phone, by email
A serious injury or illness: in-patient hospitalisation for more than 24 hours other than for observation, the loss of any member of the body, or serious permanent disfigurement. Reported to the nearest Cal/OSHA district office. Cal/OSHA Within 8 hours of learning of it by phone, by email
An occupational injury or illness with lost time beyond the day of the incident, or medical treatment beyond first aid: the Form 5020 to the workers’ compensation carrier within five days of learning of it. the carrier Within 5 days of learning of it in writing, online

The forms, filled in from the report

  • OSHA Form 300: Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, with the OSHA Injury Tracking Application case data file
  • OSHA Form 301: Injury and Illness Incident Report
  • OSHA Form 300A: Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, with the OSHA Injury Tracking Application 300A summary file
  • Form 5020: Employer’s Report of Occupational Injury or Illness

The report is made once. Every field the form shares with it is filled in; you add what only you know, check it and send it yourself.

Dates in the year

  • Post the 300A summary where notices to employees are usually posted, 1 February to 30 April.
  • Submit the year’s data electronically through OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application, by 2 March.
  • Keep the 300 log, the 300A summary and the 301 reports for five years after the end of the year they cover.

A case, judged

A worker cuts their hand and has first aid only: Not recordable. Nothing to report to Cal/OSHA.

If it keeps them off work for 8 days: OSHA 300 log: Days away from work (H), by Oct 12, 2026. the carrier, by Oct 10, 2026, on the Form 5020: Employer’s Report of Occupational Injury or Illness.

Athena proposes the answer and shows the rule it used. A person decides, and only a person sends anything to Cal/OSHA.

In the United States, it is called

The injury record OSHA 300 log
The risk assessment for a task JSA
The person who runs safety Safety manager
A short safety talk Toolbox talk
The report to the regulator Severe injury report
A case with time off work Days away case

Money in USD, and dates written as they are in the United States, at each site’s own time.

Where these rules come from

Drafted from the public sources below, read on 26 October 2026.

Not yet reviewed by a qualified person in the United States: until one has, every rule is marked to be checked, in the product as here. Each rule has a version, and a case keeps the version it was judged under.

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