Reporting an Emergency
OSHA Emergency Hotline: 1-800-321-OSHA
EPA National Response Center: 1-800-424-8802
Poison Control Center: 1-800-222-1222
Filing a Complaint with OSHA
Webform: www.osha.gov/workers/file_complaint.html
Find OSHA Offices by States: https://www.osha.gov/html/RAmap.html
OSH Law Project, A Workers Toolkit to Understanding OSHA’s Legal Process: www.oshlaw.org/resources
Submitting a Tip to EPA
Report an Environmental Violation web form: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/report-environmental-violations
Index of Health and Environmental Agencies of U.S. States and Territories:
www.epa.gov/home/health-and-environmental-agencies-us-states-and-territories
Citizen Suit Enforcement
EPA Notices of Intent to Sue: www.epa.gov/noi
Workers’ Compensation
National Employment Law Project: https://www.nelp.org/workers-comp-law-resources/
National COSH and NESRI, Workers’ Comp Hub: www.workerscomphub.org
Contacting Local Prosecutors
CPR Manual, Preventing Death and Injury on the Job: The Criminal Justice Alternative in State Law: https://progressivereform.org/articles/WorkerProsecutionManual_1602.pdf
Utilizing Workers’ Right to Know
National COSH, Safety Data Sheets and other Chemical Fact Sheets: www.coshnetwork.org/node/35
OSHA Database of Worker Fatalities: https://www.osha.gov/dep/fatcat/dep_fatcat.html
OSHA Database of Severe Injuries (reported as of Jan. 1, 2015): https://www.osha.gov/severeinjury/index.html
OSHA Sampling Data: www.osha.gov/opengov/healthsamples.html
NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Request Form: www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/pdf/hhe_request_form_fillable.pdf
NIOSH Handbook for HHE Requests: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2014-136/pdfs/2014-136.pdf
Search HHE Reports (through 2010): www2a.cdc.gov/hhe/search.asp
Houston Chronicle, Right-to-Know Network: http://www.rtk.net
Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2): http://www.theic2.org
Accessing Federal Agency Data
OSHA Integrated Management Information System: https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.html
Department of Labor Enforcement Database: https://enforcedata.dol.gov
EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO): https://echo.epa.gov
OSHA Hazard Alerts: www.osha.gov/ooc/alerts-letters.html
OSHA’s Occupational Chemical Database: www.osha.gov/chemicaldata
OSHA Table Comparing PELs with Other Limits: https://www.osha.gov/dsg/annotated-pels/tablez-1.html
NIOSH Pocket Guide: www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/default.html
ATSDR ToxFAQs: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs
EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS): https://www.epa.gov/iris
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests: https://www.FOIA.gov
Researching Other Public Databases
Chemical Hazard and Alternatives Toolbox (U.S. ChemHAT): www.chemhat.org
Healthy Building Network’s Pharos Database: www.pharosproject.net
Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2): http://theic2.org/
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Toxic Use Reduction Institute (TURI): https://www.turi.org/
RISCTOX Database: https://risctox.istas.net/en
European Union REACH Program: https://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals
Project ToxicDocs: www.toxicdocs.org
Document Cloud: www.documentcloud.org
