What the electronic reporting rule adds
29 CFR 1904.41 requires certain establishments to submit their injury and illness data electronically through OSHA's Injury Tracking Application (ITA) once a year, by March 2, covering the previous calendar year. It is an addition to — not a replacement for — keeping the 300, 300A, and 301 records themselves.
Coverage is determined establishment by establishment, using the establishment's peak employment during the previous calendar year and its industry classification.
The three submission tiers
Whether an establishment submits, and what it submits, depends on size and industry:
- 20–249 employees in a designated higher-hazard industry (appendix A to subpart E): submit Form 300A summary data.
- 250 or more employees in any industry required to keep records: submit Form 300A summary data.
- 100 or more employees in a designated highest-hazard industry (appendix B to subpart E, added by the 2023 final rule effective January 1, 2024): submit Form 300 log and Form 301 incident report data in addition to the 300A, and include the company's legal name.
How submission actually works
Submissions go through the ITA at osha.gov — by web form, CSV upload, or API. Employers register an account, create or confirm each covered establishment, and submit per establishment. Corporate parents may submit on behalf of multiple establishments in one batch.
Practical details that trip teams up: the employer identification number is part of the submission; establishment employment counts use the peak for the year, not the average; and a year with zero recordable cases still requires a 300A submission for a covered establishment.
What OSHA does with the data
Submitted data feeds OSHA's inspection targeting — establishments with elevated rates in high-hazard industries are more likely to appear in programmed inspection lists — and portions of the data are published. Case-level 300/301 data is published with personally identifiable fields withheld.
That publication cuts both ways: accurate data is a defensible record, while sloppy data (inflated hours, misclassified cases) is now visible to regulators, insurers, and anyone benchmarking your rates.
Frequently asked questions
March-ready data, all year
SafeGora keeps establishment-level 300 / 300A / 301 data structured and export-oriented, so the ITA window is a review step — you submit, with the artifacts already reconciled.