If you want a copy of a workplace injury record, identify which record you mean before sending the request. Access to OSHA injury records for Philadelphia delivery workers involves different forms and requester relationships. An establishment’s injury log and the incident report describing your own injury answer different questions.
This guide addresses the federal OSHA access rule where the relevant records are maintained under its recordkeeping system. It does not establish that a particular delivery employer must keep these forms. OSHA has partial recordkeeping exemptions, including a company-size exemption subject to stated exceptions. Confirm the actual employer and recordkeeping circumstances rather than assuming that a delivery-job title settles coverage.
Separate the OSHA 300 Log from your incident report
Under OSHA’s access rule, an employee or former employee can request relevant current or stored OSHA 300 Logs for the establishment where they worked. The rule requires copies by the end of the next business day.
The OSHA 301 Incident Report has a more specific personal-access provision: an employee or former employee can request the report describing their own injury or illness, with the same next-business-day deadline. Do not treat that provision as a personal right to obtain every coworker’s incident report.
Representative requests have their own provisions. In particular, the authorized employee representative route concerns a collective bargaining agent and has different timing and disclosure limits for incident reports. If someone is requesting records on your behalf, check which representative provision fits instead of applying your own request deadline automatically.
The rule prohibits charging for the first copies supplied, while allowing a reasonable retrieval and copying charge for additional copies. These access provisions concern existing records; they do not establish whether an unrecorded event should have been entered.
Compare the request with the response
Imagine a fictional former delivery worker who asks for the OSHA 301 report describing their own injury at the establishment where they worked. The employer replies with an OSHA 300 Log. The supplied log differs from the report named in the request.
The worker can follow up: “My request was for the incident report describing my own injury. The attachment appears to be the establishment log. Please clarify whether the incident report is available and respond to that request.” Keep the original request and actual response together.
The example does not establish that the employer violated a rule, that the injury was recordable or that the requested report exists. Those questions require the real circumstances. A note saying “records received” would hide the difference between the request and response.
Keep record access separate from reporting the injury
Requesting an existing record does not replace giving notice of an injury or following an appropriate incident-reporting procedure. For operational response and reporting questions, consult the delivery-driver safety guidance. Immediate safety and medical needs should not wait for a document request.
The delivery-driver training questions also help you identify who explains reporting procedures during onboarding. Knowing that contact answers a practical workplace question; it does not establish the employer’s recordkeeping coverage or the legal result of an access request.
Make a focused request
Name the record you seek, your relationship to the establishment and enough information to identify your own report when that is the request. Use the employer’s appropriate contact and avoid including unrelated customer or coworker information. Retain the date sent, the document supplied and any explanation of missing records.
Continue separate employment questions through the Philadelphia delivery-job guides. For record access, compare the actual request and response against the applicable provision. An OSHA record-access question does not resolve personnel-file inspection, workers’ compensation entitlement or the accuracy of a recorded account.