If the employer is located in a state under federal OSHA jurisdiction, send an email to foiarequests@dol.gov, with the following information if you are seeking inspection records.
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Inspection number (find it through inspections search)
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City and state where incident occurred
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Date incident occurred
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Employer name that was inspected
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Your name (the requester) and your physical address.
Choose only what is needed. In your email, let us know what records you want:
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OSHA-1. OSHA Inspection Report/Violation Worksheet (Formerly OSHA-1B Worksheet)
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Safety Narrative. Inspection Report (Formerly OSHA – 1A, Inspection Narrative Report)
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Violation Worksheet
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Citations
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Settlement Agreement
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Management or Managerial witness statements
We encourage you to remove any request for records that are potentially: 1) commercial or financial; 2) confidential or privileged; and 3) received from a business. These records must go through Executive Order 12600 review, which increases the processing time. If you don’t need these records, add the following language to your request:
I am not requesting any records subject to Executive Order 12600.
If the employer is not under federal OSHA, send your request to the state plan.
Contact us if you have a question about your FOIA request.