The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a notice announcing that most employers must electronically report injury and illness data through the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) beginning on December 15, 2017.

OSHA had announced a previous compliance deadline of July 1, 2017, which was extended without a definitive deadline until this latest notice. 

This rule requires certain employers electronically submit injury and illness information they are already required to keep under existing OSHA regulations. However, the notice lists eleven states that do not yet require their employers to submit these reports electronically; Virginia is not among those eleven states. OSHA is currently reviewing the other provisions of its final rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, and intends to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking to reconsider, revise, or remove portions of that rule in 2018.