That is clearly not sufficient,
especially when over 4,800 workers were killed in 2015 and almost 3
million more suffered a serious workplace injury or illnesses. The OSHA
reporting rule is critical for OSHA to conduct a thorough
investigation, enforce accurate recordkeeping requirements, and focus
limited resources on industries and bad actors that pose the greatest
risk to worker safety. Take, for instance, the Exel Corporation, a Pennsylvania warehouse
and trucking company, which hired hundreds of foreign students on
temporary visas, and was cited for numerous unrecorded injuries after
some students were seriously injured on the job. Only after students
fought for fair pay and safer working conditions and OSHA was able to
conduct an investigation was it revealed that, for years, the company
had withheld wages and willfully failed to record about half the
serious injuries to student workers as well as other serious health and
safety violations. By the time DOL had completed their lengthy investigation, the Wage
and Hour division recovered over $200,000 in wages withheld from 1,028
foreign student workers.