This site indexes public records published by federal OSHA and reproduces them as the agency released them. If something here is attributed to the wrong company, or an OSHA narrative describes you and its publication is a problem, tell us. A person reads every confirmed request.
What we will do
Correct a misattribution by unlinking, not deleting. Records are grouped onto employer pages by normalized company name, and unrelated companies that share a name can end up on one page. If you show us records on an employer page aren't yours, we stop attributing them to that page — they drop off its record lists and out of its counts. The underlying OSHA record stays published at its own address, because it is still a real federal record; it simply stops being presented as yours.
Review a personal privacy request. If you are the worker described in a narrative, write to us and a person will read it. OSHA writes these narratives without names, but a narrative plus an employer, an address, and a date can still point at one person. We take that seriously and we look at each one individually. We won't promise an outcome in advance.
Answer. We respond to every confirmed request. We're not going to publish a turnaround time we can't guarantee, so we don't quote one — but requests are read, not queued indefinitely.
What we won't do
Delete an accurate federal record because it's unflattering. These are public-domain records of a federal agency. Removing an accurate one on request would misrepresent the public record, and we'd be doing it for whoever asked loudest. Unflattering is not the same as wrong.
Change what an OSHA record says. We don't hold the source. If a fact in the record itself is wrong — the wrong date, the wrong establishment, the wrong description — that correction has to be made with OSHA, and the fix reaches us on a later refresh. Tell us anyway: we can note the dispute here in the meantime.
Give legal advice. Nothing on this site is legal, safety-compliance, or professional advice.
How we check who you are — stated plainly
We send a confirmation link to the address you give us, and the request isn't reviewed until you click it. That proves one thing: that you control that email address. It does not prove the address belongs to the company you're writing about — OSHA's data contains no company-domain field, so nothing in our data can establish that link. On the company form we ask for an address at the company's own domain, and we record and read that domain, but it is one input to a human decision, not proof and never an automatic action. No unlink is ever applied without a person approving it.
I'm writing on behalf of a company
Use this if records on an employer page belong to a different business, or if the page merges your company with another that shares its name. Please use an email address at your company's own domain.
I'm the person described in a record
Use this if you found an OSHA narrative about your own injury. There's no domain requirement here and you don't need to involve your employer — any email address you can receive mail at is fine.
Or just write to us
If neither form fits your situation, email [email protected]. Postal mail reaches us at Shovel, 3916 N Potsdam Ave PMB 2219, Sioux Falls, SD 57104.
Records are grouped by normalized employer name, not by legal entity, so unrelated companies sharing a name can appear together. Verify against the linked OSHA source records before drawing conclusions about a specific company. Severe-injury data covers establishments under federal OSHA jurisdiction only. About 22 states run their own OSHA-approved state plans, and severe-injury reports from those states are not in OSHA's published federal file.