For employers this is a little hard to believe but here’s the bottom line — An alcohol induced accident involving an intoxicated employee can be an OSHA recordable incident.
OSHA recently provide an opinion through an interpretation letter that if an employee received an injury at work and the employee was determined to be intoxicated through a post-injury drug test and the incident met at one of the general recording criteria found in Section 1904.7, it is still an OSHA recordable incident and must be annotated correctly on the OSHA 300 Log.
Source: Industry News
