referencesource/incident-notification-deadlines

Federal incident notification deadlines by regulation

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• —Last verified: 2026-08-12
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• —Records: 23

The mandatory notification deadlines triggered by workplace, environmental, and transportation incidents under US federal regulations, compared across all major reporting frameworks. Each record is one notification obligation under one regulation, carrying the triggering event, the clock (how fast you must report), who receives the notification, the required method, the threshold that activates the requirement, and any follow-up reporting obligation. Answers 'how fast must I report a workplace fatality to OSHA', 'who do I call for a chemical spill', 'what is the DOT hazmat incident notification deadline', 'do I need to notify the SERC or just the NRC', and 'which incidents require written follow-up within 30 days'. A single incident at a facility can simultaneously trigger 4-6 different federal notification requirements with different deadlines (8 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, immediate, 30 days) and different recipients (OSHA, NRC, SERC, LEPC, EPA region).

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Licence position

US federal regulation — 17 USC 105, no copyright

Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it.

Sources

• —https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/2607
• —https://www.osha.gov/recordkeeping/2014/reporting-table
• —https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/110.6
• —https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/265.56
• —https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/302.6
• —https://www.epa.gov/epcra/cercla-and-epcra-continuous-release-reporting
• —https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/171.15
• —https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/171.16
• —https://www.epa.gov/epcra/epcra-release-notification-rq-any-24-hour-period
• —https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/355.40

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