{"id":5229,"date":"2024-06-01T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2024-06-10T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T18:10:51","slug":"blast-from-the-past-pef-wins-access-to-dol-employee-injury-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/issue\/volume-42-no-5\/blast-from-the-past-pef-wins-access-to-dol-employee-injury-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past: PEF wins access to DOL employee-injury records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4150 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/BlastFromThePast.jpg\" alt=\"Blast from the past\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/BlastFromThePast.jpg 400w, https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/BlastFromThePast-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/BlastFromThePast-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/BlastFromThePast-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>June 10, 2024 &#8212;<\/em> In 2001, the state Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Labor broke state law when it withheld information about employees\u2019 job-related injuries from PEF. The union sued after the state\u2019s Industrial Board of Appeals upheld DOL\u2019s decision to deny PEF full information provided on injury and illness logs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The story began with DOL\u2019s Statewide Health and Safety Committee\u2019s request to review the records: \u201cI wanted to see how many injuries were happening and how they happened, and how much time on the job was being lost because of them,\u201d then committee co-chair Ron Goldstein stated in a July\/August 2001 <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Communicator<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> article. \u201cAll we want to do, is save the employees\u2019 pain and injury and save the department money.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Fast forward to 2024<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Those logs are vital tools to address health and safety concerns in the workplace and PEF uses them today in efforts to rectify problems. PEF will go to bat to make sure these logs are made available when requested.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At a Health and Safety workshop at last year\u2019s PEF Convention, members discussed analyzing data to identify workplace violence trends. This is where a worksite\u2019s SH 900 logs can be leveraged. An employer is required by state law to keep an SH 900 log of all work-related injuries and illnesses and PEF has a right to request them and there is no need to state a reason for the request.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communicator.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/Blast-email.jpg\">Click here for the article<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/departments\/health-safety\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Click here for PEF\u2019s Health and Safety webpage.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10, 2024 &#8212; In 2001, the state Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Labor broke state law when it withheld information about employees\u2019 job-related injuries from PEF. 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