[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                                OF LABOR
 
Part 1904_Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and 
 
  Subpart E_Reporting Fatality, Injury and Illness Information to the 
                               Government
 
Sec.  1904.42  Requests from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for data.

    (a) Basic requirement. If you receive a Survey of Occupational 
Injuries and Illnesses Form from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 
or a BLS designee, you must promptly complete the form and return it 
following the instructions contained on the survey form.
    (b) Implementation--(1) Does every employer have to send data to the 
BLS? No, each year, the BLS sends injury and illness survey forms to 
randomly selected employers and uses the information to create the 
Nation's occupational injury and illness statistics. In any year, some 
employers will receive a BLS survey form and others will not. You do not 
have to send injury and illness data to the BLS unless you receive a 
survey form.
    (2) If I get a survey form from the BLS, what do I have to do? If 
you receive a Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Form from 
the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), or a BLS designee, you must 
promptly complete the form and return it, following the instructions 
contained on the survey form.
    (3) Do I have to respond to a BLS survey form if I am normally 
exempt from keeping OSHA injury and illness records? Yes, even if you 
are exempt from keeping injury and illness records under Sec.  1904.1 to 
Sec.  1904.3, the BLS may inform you in writing that it will be 
collecting injury and illness information from you in the coming year. 
If you receive such a letter, you must keep the injury and illness 
records required by Sec.  1904.5 to Sec.  1904.15 and make a survey 
report for the year covered by the survey.
    (4) Do I have to answer the BLS survey form if I am located in a 
State-Plan State? Yes, all employers who receive a survey form must 
respond to the survey, even those in State-Plan States.