OSHA – Injury to Intoxicated Employee is Recordable

Seyfarth Synopsis: An alcohol induced accident involving an intoxicated employee can be an OSHA recordable incident.

 

OSHA recently opined in an Interpretation Letter that, where an employee sustained an injury at work but the employee was found to be intoxicated from alcohol through a post-injury drug screen, if the incident met at least one of the general recording criteria in Section 1904.7, it is still an OSHA recordable incident.

 

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