NAICS 8131 — Religious Organizations. — OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping exemption
What is the what the exemption means for NAICS 8131 — Religious Organizations. — OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping exemption?
For NAICS 8131, what the exemption means is Employers are not required to keep OSHA injury and illness records for any establishment classified in the following North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, unless they are asked in writing to do so by OSHA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), or a state agency operating under the authority of OSHA or the BLS; fatality/injury reporting still required is All employers, including those partially exempted by reason of company size or industry classification, must report to OSHA any employee's fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye; cfr citation is 29 CFR 1904 Subpart B Appendix A, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19; source re-checked 2026-10-07.
8131 | Religious Organizations. |
— ecfr.gov, retrieved 2026-08-19
- NAICS code
- 8131 verified
- Industry
- Religious Organizations. verified
- What the exemption means
- Employers are not required to keep OSHA injury and illness records for any establishment classified in the following North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, unless they are asked in writing to do so by OSHA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), or a state agency operating under the authority of OSHA or the BLS.
- Applies per establishment, not per company
- The partial industry classification exemption applies to individual business establishments. If a company has several business establishments engaged in different classes of business activities, some of the company's establishments may be required to keep records, while others may be partially exempt.
- Company-size exemption (10 or fewer employees)
- To determine if you are exempt because of size, you need to determine your company's peak employment during the last calendar year. If you had no more than 10 employees at any time in the last calendar year, your company qualifies for the partial exemption for size.
- Fatality/injury reporting still required
- All employers, including those partially exempted by reason of company size or industry classification, must report to OSHA any employee's fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye
- CFR citation
- 29 CFR 1904 Subpart B Appendix A our reading
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What osha.gov says
8131 | Religious Organizations. |
— osha.gov, retrieved 2026-08-19