---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 929"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "929"
heading: "Record of injury or death"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/929"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §929. Record of injury or death


Every [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) shall keep a record in respect of any [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) to an [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3). Such record shall contain such information of disease, other [disability](/usc/33/902.md?p=10), or death in respect of such [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) as the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) may by regulation require, and shall be available to inspection by the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) or by any [State](/usc/33/902.md?p=8) authority at such times and under such conditions as the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) may by regulation prescribe.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 29, 44 Stat. 1438; Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1654.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted “Secretary” for “commission”. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–426 effective Sept. 28, 1984, see section 28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98–426, set out as a note under section 901 of this title.