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GAO Report On Workplace Injury Reporting Stuns OSHA

November 30, 2009 by Benjamin Hunting  
Filed under Compliance, Front Page, Inspections

The Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration (OSHA) has again been forced to confront the fact that injury and illness reporting are just not at the level they need to be in order to ensure the highest level of worker protections across all industries. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), which is a specific branch of the government dedicated to auditing data for various federal agencies, has just provided a report which confirmed the fact that it is all too common for companies to under-report the incidence of injury in the workplace.