The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the directive on June 28, 2021, to encourage vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The directive also stated that OSHA, a division of the U.S. Department of Labor, would not track workers' COVID-19 vaccine adverse events — even though it acknowledged that the vaccines may cause injuries that would require employees to take time off work.
OSHA continued to track reactions to other vaccines.
A Labor Department official confirmed for The Defender that OSHA didn't track COVID-19 vaccine injuries, and said those policies remained in place until February 2025.
OSHA also outlined its COVID-19 reporting policy on its website's frequently asked questions page for COVID-19, which stated:
"OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers' vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA does not intend to enforce ... recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination."
Comment: OSHA, just like their counterparts in other countries, indeed plays a pivotal roll in abating hazards in the workplace. Hazards, are often times thought of as the obvious, and than there are those industrial hazards that include chemical and biological toxins, assessed through the practice of industrial hygiene with detailed developed exposures control limits. OSHA's aim is to adopt Standards and certifications, and to consult, educate and enforce. Their mandate is as simple as that.
During our global, so-called covid pandemic times - that also included rolling out of a hyped up politically and commercial driven magic bullet vaccine, OSHA did no due diligence other than to create the industrial window-dressing of acceptance and make it appear as law.
OSHA, just like other regulators in lock-step, controlled workers (of which many in the public are obviously workers) through government and private companies. Their measures help to lay down the conditions of employment, of workers vaccine status (and all the rest of the mask nonsense where they knew better after decades of analysis). Once done, it was expanded for most all government, healthcare or companies that interfaced with the public - and that was pretty much all of society.
Make no mistake, the vaccine toxins were pushed down from above by the usual suspects, and yet, to lay this firmly down in society they also needed the likes of OSHA, and as said, their counterparts throughout the world. From there, it was a matter of legal human rights opinion (where you do not have any that will be enforced), HR to help manage and those who drafted covid vaccine policy.
The policy was removed from the website after The Defender contacted OSHA earlier this month. However, it is visible on an archived version of the webpage from Sept. 1, under the heading, "Vaccine Related."
Zowe Smith, a former medical coder for an Arizona hospital, called OSHA's policy "especially inflammatory" and "an admission they know the vaccine is not safe and carries a risk of injury serious enough to affect one's ability to work."
Legal and medical experts suggested OSHA's policies may have concealed the true extent of COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries in the U.S., denied American healthcare workers informed consent and violated federal law.
Policies implemented under the Biden administration forced millions of U.S. healthcare workers to choose between getting the experimental COVID-19 vaccine or losing their jobs.
Comment: As said above, this was not just healthcare, this affected workers of all kinds and the public who would frequent businesses (to eat, shop, socialize, to visit loved ones in hospitals' or care homes, and to even receive services and treatment).
'Proof of a cover-up'
Under OSHA's 2021 directive, healthcare employers and OSHA's compliance safety and health officers were not obliged to keep track of employees' adverse events related to the COVID-19 shots.
"So as not to discourage vaccination, employers are not required to record instances of adverse events to vaccinations on the OSHA 300 log effective through May 2022," the directive stated. The OSHA 300 log is a form for employers to report workplace-related injuries.
According to the same directive, OSHA would not cite healthcare employers for failure to comply with workplace injury recordkeeping requirements regarding "worker side effects from a COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022."
"To require employers to report non-symptomatic COVID-19 cases but not severe adverse vaccine reactions diametrically contradicts OSHA's most basic purpose," said Christopher Dreisbach, legal affairs director for React19, a group advocating on behalf of COVID-19 vaccine injury victims.
"This uncovered directive is just another example of the systemic willful blindness that pervaded the prior administration," he said.
Attorney Greg Glaser said the directive was not "a passive oversight, but an active, deliberate policy to manipulate public perception by withholding safety data." He added:
"This alone is a scandal — a federal agency prioritizing vaccination propaganda over workplace safety and transparency. OSHA's mission is to ensure safe workplaces. By directing employers not to record vaccine injuries, they violated their own mandate and betrayed public trust."Charlene Delfico, New Jersey state chair of the FormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group for people adversely affected by COVID-19-related policies, said the directive is "proof of a cover-up."
"By silencing injury reports, OSHA denied workers their rights, erased their suffering from the record and shielded corporations from liability. ... This was institutionalized gaslighting. This was not about safety — it was about hiding the truth," Delfico said.
OSHA showed 'blatant disregard to uphold its duty' to workplace safety
OSHA's policy for reporting COVID-19 vaccine reactions differs from its policies for reporting adverse events related to other shots, such as the smallpox vaccine.
"Why was COVID-19 given special exemption? This double standard proves the policy was political, not scientific," Glaser said.
Danielle Baker, formerly a certified hospice and palliative care registered nurse, was injured after her employer coerced her into getting the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. Baker is now permanently disabled.
Baker said OSHA's policies show a "blatant disregard to uphold its duty and function to workplace safety."
Comment: Again, as said, you will find the same policies in other countries: Canada and its provinces, the UK, Germany, France, etcetera.
Some health and medical experts said OSHA's policies denied healthcare workers the right to informed consent.
"OSHA substantially encouraged COVID-19 vaccination, thus vaccine victims did not feel free to make a choice over vaccination," said Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist.
Scott C. Tips, president of the National Health Federation, agreed. "There can be no informed consent in such a data-blocked environment and, as such, OSHA's actions in withholding this data were criminal," he said.
OSHA response 'a masterclass in obfuscation'
In a Sept. 15 email, a Labor Department spokesperson told The Defender that OSHA developed its COVID-19 Healthcare ETS in accordance with a January 2021 executive order by former President Joe Biden on protecting the health and safety of workers.
Although Biden's executive order did not specifically address vaccination, it called for a review of "the enforcement efforts of [OSHA] related to COVID-19" and the identification of "any short-, medium-, and long-term changes that could be made to better protect workers and ensure equity in enforcement."
According to the spokesperson, publication of the ETS "served as a notice of proposed rulemaking, thus initiating the rulemaking process for a permanent rule on COVID-19."
But on Dec. 27, 2021, OSHA determined that "it could not complete a permanent rule in a timeframe approaching the one contemplated by the OSHA Act," leading OSHA to stop enforcing the reporting requirement for COVID-19 vaccine injuries, the spokesperson said.
"OSHA subsequently terminated the rulemaking on Jan. 15, 2025. On Feb. 5, 2025, OSHA announced that it would no longer enforce the few reporting and recordkeeping provisions that remained in effect. The COVID-19 deregulatory proposed rule is open for public comment" in the Federal Register, the spokesperson stated.
Smith said aborted rulemaking procedures are common practice:
"There is a trend in public health policymaking to post announcements in the Federal Register to make them appear as official laws. Announcements are worded in such a way as to sound as if the announcement has already been made official policy, subject to enforcement. However, there is a process for turning policy announcements into official regulations that is often not followed.
Comment: The comment above that "there is a process for turning policy announcements into official regulations," is just so. It can take years of public consultation to enact a regulation.
As seen by OSHA and many other regulators of the same kind, they draw up policies that employers think carries the same weight as regulatory law, when they do not, although rarely challenged.
"The interim, public review process, is often not made public, or impossibly short, followed by omitting the review and other final meetings before the policy can be adopted officially by the agency in question."
Comment: Again, true, and they use the word 'stakeholders' to denote who the public consultations were with. Often, the stakeholders are not much more than unions who are aligned. Stakeholders can also be a veiled lobby The legal teams who draft regulatory law and the Boards who sign and adopt, can lack any competence in knowing the down stream ramifications - or they do know, yet not for the intended purposes sold and enacted.
The spokesperson acknowledged that OSHA did not keep track of COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events, stating:
"Detailed case reports are available for calendar years 2023 and 2024 that include a few records describing vaccine adverse events, primarily from flu vaccines.The spokesperson referred The Defender to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. The site provides downloadable spreadsheets of raw data from injury reports submitted to OSHA — but there was no immediately apparent way to search for reports about vaccine injuries in these datasets.
"OSHA has not conducted analyses on vaccine adverse reactions in workers but makes these records accessible online for those interested in performing their own analyses."
Glaser said the Labor Department's response was "a masterclass in obfuscation." He said OSHA "admitted they never analyzed the data and redirected you to perform your own analysis, an impossible task when they ensured that data was never properly collected in the first place."
McCullough agreed, calling the department's response "evasive." He said, "All U.S. citizens should be concerned."
Glaser said the information the department's spokesperson shared reveals "a coordinated policy to suppress data on COVID-19 vaccine injuries." He added:
"For nearly three years after the original May 2022 cutoff, OSHA continued to enforce aspects of the ETS except for the requirement to log vaccine injuries. This wasn't an oversight — it was a sustained effort to bury data.
"Why did OSHA continue non-enforcement until 2025? Was this because injury reports were mounting, and they wanted to avoid creating a paper trail? ... Was there pressure from pharmaceutical lobbyists? Did political appointees orchestrate this to protect the vaccine narrative?"
Comment: Or all of the above.
Denial of COVID vaccine injuries 'an officially supported and established trend'
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist, said, "OSHA's directive to employers to ignore suspected injuries from the COVID-19 shots contradicts [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] rules requiring providers to report most COVID-19 shot reactions to VAERS." VAERS is the U.S. government-run Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Bowden said it was "not surprising," as none of her COVID-19 vaccine-injured patients "were reported to VAERS by other providers, much less OSHA."
Smith said providers at the hospital where she worked during the COVID-19 pandemic "were unanimously in denial that any new conditions presenting after COVID-19 vaccination were adverse events related to the vaccine." Instead, "they documented it was just COVID-19 symptoms."
She added:
"It was an officially supported and established trend during the pandemic to deny any causative relationship between new-onset medical condition and COVID-19 vaccination. No ICD-10 code existed specifically for reporting adverse events, injuries and death from COVID-19 vaccines. This had the effect of obscuring and hiding safety signals and data from the public."For Baker, OSHA's policies resulted in real-world harm by hiding the extent of COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries from the public. "If they didn't opt out of accepting reports, would we have had a clearer, real-time picture of the extent of damages done?" Baker asked.
"The effect it had on employees inevitably made it difficult or impossible to report injuries related to COVID-19 vaccines," Smith said. "Even worse, [it] made it near impossible to receive workers' compensation or disability for their work-related injuries."
Tips and McCullough suggested that OSHA's COVID-19 reporting policies violated state and federal law. They called upon the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate.
Delfico agreed. "Transparency, accountability and reform are desperately needed. Otherwise, the same playbook will be used again," she said.
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"In 2016, journalist Del Bigtree issued a challenge to the head of infectious disease at one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the world: conduct the most thorough vaxxed vs. unvaxxed study that has ever been done. The expert took up the challenge and ran the study to prove Del wrong. That study never saw the light of day... until now."