{"id":"DUT-IN-010","kind":"duty","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"Indiana (State plan monitored by federal OSHA Region V)","state":"IN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Region V (Chicago)","authority":"Section 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. 667; 29 C.F.R. Part 1902 and 1954 (State plan monitoring)","instrument":"FY 2021 Comprehensive Federal Annual Monitoring Evaluation (FAME) Report, Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (evaluation period Oct. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021)","title":"Federal OSHA\u0027s evaluation of IOSHA\u0027s FY 2021 enforcement, recording 3,157 COVID-heavy complaint investigations and inspections of COVID-19 related hazards under the general duty clause","dateIssued":"2020-10-01","effective":"Describes enforcement during 2020 Q4 through 2021 Q3","end":"Not applicable (evaluation report)","startDate":"2020-10-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","DUTY"],"addressees":["employers (every Indiana employer subject to IOSHA)"],"clause":"IOSHA completed 3,157 complaint investigations in FY 2021. While this number is quite a bit less than in FY 2020, many of these were COVID-related and the number of complaint investigations is significantly more than in FY 2018 and FY 2019 when there were 1,369 and 1,228 complaint investigations respectively.","enforcement":"Enforcement record; penalties under Ind. Code 22-8-1.1-27.1 (Ex. DUT-IN-005)","functions":[],"notes":"Records that IOSHA investigated 3,157 complaints in FY 2021 (\u0027many of these were COVID-related\u0027), that compliance officers \u0027conducted a significant number of inspections which addressed COVID-19 related hazards\u0027 (at 9), that field work was suspended from Nov. 18, 2020 to Feb. 1, 2021 because of the pandemic, and that \u0027the general duty clause (Indiana Code 22-8-1.1-2)\u0027 was the provision cited in the reviewed files where no specific standard applied. Character as recorded: enforcement_record (federal monitoring report; workplace_duty layer).","sourceUrl":"https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/indiana-fy-2021-comprehensive-fame-report.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":253812,"grade":"primary","character":"enforcement_record","description":"","collection":"DUT-IN","url":"/library/DUT-IN-010","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-IN-010","citation":"U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Region V (Chicago), FY 2021 Comprehensive Federal Annual Monitoring Evaluation (FAME) Report, Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (evaluation period Oct. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021) (Ex. DUT-IN-010)","stateName":"Indiana","related":["DUT-IN-011","DUT-IN-005","DUT-IN-013","DUT-IN-014"]}