Employers now must report all amputations

Right now, it takes a pretty catastrophic workplace accident before employers have to let anyone at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration know. Currently, the notification threshold is an employee has to actually be killed or at least three workers sent to the hospital.
 
But starting Jan. 1, OSHA wants to know if a worker suffers a lesser on-the-job injury, such as losing an eye or limb, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.
 
Groups representing businesses, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, claim the new reporting regulations will be a burden to employers without doing anything to make the workplace safer. The Labor Department's David Michaels contends, “It’s hard to say that when someone is hospitalized, or someone loses a part of their body, it’s not an important accident.”

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