Is It Recordable?

Covid-19 & vaccines: OSHA recordability scenarios

Is it recordable? 10 OSHA recordkeeping scenarios about covid-19 & vaccines, with answers and OSHA references.

10 scenarios

Q171

COVID Vaccine Injury

An employee is heavily pressured by their employer to get the COVID19 vaccine. As a result of the vaccine, the employee experienced a…

Recordable
Q132

Aichmophobia

An employer offers a financial reward of $200 to take a voluntary covid vaccine. An employee loses consciousness before the needle…

Recordable
Q116

COVID-19 Vaccine Injury

An employee receives the COVID-19 vaccine as required by their employer. Due to a negative reaction to the vaccine, they become…

Recordable
Q113

Injured at a Customer's Home

A North Pole Inc. employee begins work delivering presents. He takes a break from delivering presents to eat some milk and cookies.…

Recordable
Q112

Reinfected with New COVID-19 Strain

An employee who previously had a recordable by contracting COVID-19 at work from a coworker is reinfected with a new coronavirus…

Recordable
Q110

COVID-19 Hospitalization

An employee is hospitalized for COVID-19 after he begins feeling ill at work. No one else in the office has tested positive for…

Not recordable
Q52

Hand Sanitizer Burn (Static)

A company’s COVID-19 contingency plan requires employees to clean their hands on a stringent basis. Antibacterial soap is made readily…

Recordable
Q39

Banking Job COVID-19 Exposure

A large bank begins educating their lobby employees on the characteristics of the COVID-19 virus. They place signs in the lobby…

Recordable
Q38

COVID-19 Self-Medication Injury

At a fish tank cleaner manufacturer, an employee insists the fish tank cleaner can act as a medication to prevent COVID-19 infection due…

Not recordable
Q26

COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

An employee becomes ill at work and is taken to a clinic for evaluation. The employee is confirmed infected with the COVID-19…

Not recordable