---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1904.31"
title: "29"
number: "1904.31"
heading: "Covered employees."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1904.31"
---

# §1904.31. Covered employees.

- (a) **Basic requirement.** You must record on the OSHA 300 Log the recordable injuries and illnesses of all employees on your payroll, whether they are labor, executive, hourly, salary, part-time, seasonal, or migrant workers. You also must record the recordable injuries and illnesses that occur to employees who are not on your payroll if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis. If your business is organized as a sole proprietorship or partnership, the owner or partners are not considered employees for recordkeeping purposes.
- (b) **Implementation—**
  - (1) **If a self-employed person is injured or becomes ill while doing work at my business, do I need to record the injury or illness?** No, self-employed individuals are not covered by the OSH Act or this regulation.
  - (2) **If I obtain employees from a temporary help service, employee leasing service, or personnel supply service, do I have to record an injury or illness occurring to one of those employees?** You must record these injuries and illnesses if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis.
  - (3) **If an employee in my establishment is a contractor's employee, must I record an injury or illness occurring to that employee?** If the contractor's employee is under the day-to-day supervision of the contractor, the contractor is responsible for recording the injury or illness. If you supervise the contractor employee's work on a day-to-day basis, you must record the injury or illness.
  - (4) **Must the personnel supply service, temporary help service, employee leasing service, or contractor also record the injuries or illnesses occurring to temporary, leased or contract employees that I supervise on a day-to-day basis?** No, you and the temporary help service, employee leasing service, personnel supply service, or contractor should coordinate your efforts to make sure that each injury and illness is recorded only once: either on your OSHA 300 Log (if you provide day-to-day supervision) or on the other employer's OSHA 300 Log (if that company provides day-to-day supervision).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 657, 658, 660, 666, 669, 673, Secretary of Labor's Orders No. 3-2000 (65 FR 50017) and 1-2012 (77 FR 3912), as applicable, and 5 U.S.C. 553.

### Source

Source: 66 FR 6122, Jan. 19, 2001, unless otherwise noted.