LOCAL RULES

Oregon incident report requirements

Your Oregon incident report has 4 rules to meet. ReportDraft puts every one on your checklist and checks your draft before you sign.

  • An Oregon OSHA report within 8 hours of a death or catastrophe
  • An Oregon OSHA report within 24 hours of a hospital admission, eye loss or amputation
  • An investigation of every lost time injury
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Oregon runs its own OSHA program. Its Division 1 rules set how fast deaths, catastrophes, hospital admissions, amputations and eye losses are reported to Oregon OSHA, and require every lost time injury to be investigated. Here is each rule with a link to the official text, and how notes become an Oregon incident report.

Last reviewed October 12, 2026 against the official sources listed below.

Incident reportOREGON / SAMPLE

Sample notes, 140 words

Company: Northgate Fabrication
Site: 1840 Industrial Pkwy, shipping dock 2
Date: 10/08/2026, about 2:15pm
Injured: Luis Romero, material handler, warehouse crew
Supervisor: Tom Reilly
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Company or organizationNorthgate Fabrication
Site address or location1840 Industrial Pkwy, shipping dock 2
Date of the incidentOct 8, 2026
Employee or person involved (full name)Luis Romero, material handler, warehouse crew
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What Oregon requires

  • Work-related fatalities (including heart attacks at work and motor vehicle accidents during the work shift, if death occurs within 30 days) and catastrophes (two or more employees killed, or three or more admitted to a hospital or equivalent facility from the same incident) are reported to Oregon OSHA in person or by telephone within 8 hours of occurrence or of the employer learning of themOAR 437-001-0704 (3)
  • In-patient hospitalizations, losses of an eye, and amputations or avulsions with bone or cartilage loss are reported to Oregon OSHA within 24 hours of the incident or of the employer learning of them (a single report when they come together); hospitalization for observation only and emergency room treatment are not reportable, but admission for any reason after emergency room treatment is, including heart attacks and motor vehicle accidentsOAR 437-001-0704 (4)
  • Oregon OSHA's Salem central office takes reports at (503) 378-3272, toll free in Oregon (800) 922-2689, and field offices in Bend, Eugene, Medford, Pendleton, Portland and Salem take reports by phone or in personOAR 437-001-0704, office list
  • Each employer investigates, or has investigated, every lost time injury workers suffer in connection with their employment to determine how to prevent a recurrence, and promptly installs any safeguard or takes any corrective measure found advisableOAR 437-001-0760 (3) (a)
  • When the department asks, employers, superintendents, supervisors and employees furnish all pertinent evidence and the names of known witnesses, and those in direct authority preserve and mark for identification the materials, tools or equipment needed for the investigationOAR 437-001-0760 (3) (b)
  • Reporting a work-related injury, illness or fatality does not assign fault, does not prove the violation of an OSHA rule, and does not establish eligibility for workers' compensation or other benefitsOAR 437-001-0704 (1), note

8 hours: fatalities and catastrophes

Work-related deaths are reported to Oregon OSHA in person or by phone within 8 hours of the death or of learning about it, including heart attacks at work and motor vehicle accidents during the shift, when death comes within 30 days. So is a catastrophe: two or more workers killed, or three or more admitted to a hospital or clinic, from one incident. The Salem office is at (503) 378-3272, toll free in Oregon (800) 922-2689.

24 hours: hospital admissions, amputations and eye loss

A single in-patient hospital admission, the loss of an eye, or an amputation or avulsion with bone or cartilage loss is reported within 24 hours. Emergency room treatment alone, or a stay only for observation, is not reportable; being admitted after the emergency room is.

Investigating every lost time injury

Every injury that costs a worker time away from work is investigated to find how to prevent it happening again, and the safeguards or fixes found advisable are put in promptly. If Oregon OSHA investigates, the employer provides the evidence and the names of witnesses and preserves and marks the tools or equipment involved. Reporting an injury does not assign fault.

From notes to an Oregon incident report

Note whether the worker missed work, how it happened and what you changed. ReportDraft marks lost time injuries, records when Oregon OSHA was called, adds the federal Form 301 items Oregon uses, and lists each safeguard or fix as a corrective action.

Common mistakes

  • Treating a hospital admission like a fatality and waiting for the 8-hour window to pass, or the reverse.
  • Skipping the investigation because the injury was only a few days off work.
  • Forgetting that a motor vehicle accident during the shift counts.
  • Reporting an emergency room visit with no admission.
  • Moving or discarding the tool involved before Oregon OSHA is done with it.

Sources

Last reviewed October 12, 2026. Next review due January 12, 2027. This page explains published rules to help you write your report. It is not legal advice; the official text linked above governs.