Home health agencies and other employers that fail to document a “recordable” workplace injury or illness could potentially be cited by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) up to five years after the incident, if a new proposal from OSHA is finalized.
The proposal, posted today on the Federal Register’s website, comes three years after a Washington D.C. circuit court judge said OSHA could only cite employers within six months after employers omit recordable information from records, err in recordkeeping or falsify records, notes Valerie Butera, a Washington, D.C.-based labor and employment attorney at Epstein Becker & Green.