Demand for Access to Workplace Safety Logs at LaGuardia Airport

Ground crew workers at LaGuardia Airport, employed by Alliance Ground International (AGI), are requesting access to the company’s workplace safety logs in response to the growing number of safety concerns. The union 32BJ SEIU, which is working to improve labor standards for these workers, claims that AGI has not shared their injury and illness records with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as required by law.

The OSHA 300 form, also known as the “Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses,” contains detailed information about workplace injuries. Federal regulations state that employers with 20 or more workers are required to submit this form to OSHA annually. The deadline for submitting data for 2024 was March 2, 2025. However, according to OSHA data, AGI has failed to submit its data for several worksites, including LaGuardia Airport.

Providing workplace injury and illness data to OSHA is crucial in identifying potential hazards and implementing measures to prevent future injuries and illnesses. Additionally, high rates of injury or illness can trigger increased OSHA inspections.

Publicly available data from OSHA, reviewed by Documented, reveals that AGI did not submit OSHA 300 logs for its operations at LaGuardia Airport for the past three years. However, the company did submit the required data for nine other airports across the country, including John F. Kennedy Airport and Newark-Liberty Airport in New York.

Despite this, the data also shows that AGI has failed to submit dozens of OSHA 300 logs in 2024, based on the company’s map of locations in the United States. Failure to submit this data can result in a penalty of $16,550.

When asked about AGI’s failure to submit their report for the past three years, as well as any penalties issued to the company, OSHA did not provide a response and directed Documented to the data on their website.

Although employers are required by law to submit the OSHA 300 form, a 2021 report by the U. S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that over 50% of eligible employers did not report their data for the years 2016 to 2018. The GAO also noted that OSHA has limited procedures in place to encourage compliance. In 2019, OSHA identified almost 220,000 employers who failed to report their data, yet only 255 employers were cited for non-compliance between mid-December 2017 and September 2019.

This lack of enforcement, according to the GAO, hinders OSHA’s ability to conduct targeted inspections at workplaces with high rates of injury and illness. The report concluded that “OSHA has taken limited steps to ensure compliance” with regards to injury and illness data reporting.

On Wednesday, workers submitted a formal request to AGI for the OSHA