The fact a worker injured on the job was taking a prescription drug for a condition unrelated to work at the time she was hurt doesn’t exempt the injury from being recorded in the company’s injury log, according to an advisory OSHA posted Nov. 3.
“The work event or exposure need only be one of the discernible causes; it need not be the sole or predominant cause,” Amanda Edens, director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s technical support division, said in the Aug. 23 interpretation letter.
Edens was responding to employer, the Dannon Co. The ...
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