OSHA Recordkeeping and Reporting practice questions for the ASP exam
ASP11 Domain 9: Legal (9.4 Records control (retention, worker privacy)). 3 free questions below. Every answer quotes and links the regulation paragraph it rests on.
- 29 CFR 1904.29: Forms.
- 29 CFR 1904.33: Retention and updating.
- 29 CFR 1904.39: Reporting fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye as a result of work-related incidents to OSHA. · how this section is tested
- 29 CFR 1904.4: Recording criteria.
- 29 CFR 1904.7: General recording criteria. · how this section is tested
Text pulled from the eCFR, current as of 2026-10-14.
A utility contractor's employee suffers an amputation at 9:30 p.m. on a Saturday. The supervisor knows the OSHA Area Office is closed and proposes leaving a voicemail on the office answering machine, faxing the office, or emailing it. Which method is acceptable under the rule?
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Answer: C. Report using the 800 number or the reporting application on OSHA's public Web site
When the Area Office is closed, the employer must use either the 800 number or the online reporting application. Voicemail, fax, and email are not acceptable ways to make the report.
“No, if the Area Office is closed, you must report the fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye using either the 800 number or the reporting application located on OSHA's public Web site at www.osha.gov.”
During a shift, a welder faints after inhaling fumes at work and is unconscious for about 30 seconds. He wakes on his own, declines treatment, and returns to his normal duties. The safety coordinator asks whether the case must be recorded. What is the correct determination?
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Answer: C. Recordable, because the worker became unconscious, regardless of how long he stayed unconscious
A work-related case must be recorded if the worker becomes unconscious, however brief the episode. The distractors add a duration threshold or a treatment requirement that the rule does not contain.
“Yes, you must record a work-related injury or illness if the worker becomes unconscious, regardless of the length of time the employee remains unconscious.”
A warehouse employee hurts his shoulder lifting a pallet on Wednesday. A physician treats him that day and recommends he stay home for the next four calendar days. The employee, worried about a shipping deadline, reports for his normal shift on Thursday and works all day despite the supervisor encouraging him to follow the physician's advice. How must the employer record this case on the OSHA 300 Log?
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Answer: D. As a days-away case with four days entered, because the recommended days away must be recorded whether or not the employee follows the recommendation
The days away recommended by the physician must be recorded even though the employee came to work anyway, so the case is a days-away case with the recommended count. Counting only actual absences, or treating the case as one with no days away, is wrong because the standard bases the entry on the professional's recommendation.
“You must record these injuries and illnesses on the OSHA 300 Log using the check box for cases with days away from work and enter the number of calendar days away recommended by the physician or other licensed health care professional. If a physician or other licensed health care professional recommends days away, you should encourage your employee to follow that recommendation. However, the days away must be recorded whether the injured or ill employee follows the physician or licensed health care professional's recommendation or not.”
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