A guard suffers an arrow to the knee and spends the rest of his career at a desk telling people about it. Strip the fantasy and you have a textbook compound recordkeeping case: a violent injury, medical treatment, and a permanent reassignment — three separate reasons this lands on the 300 log.
Work-relatedness first. An arrow fired at an employee on duty is workplace violence, and OSHA has addressed this directly: injuries from intentional acts of violence in the work environment are work-related — the exceptions in 1904.5(b)(2) contain nothing for assaults (OSHA letter, May 17, 2023, confirming a violent attack produced a work-related injury). It does not matter that a third party fired the arrow; recordkeeping is no-fault.
Now the criteria, where this case is triply recordable. Removing an arrow and treating the wound is medical treatment beyond first aid (29 CFR 1904.7(b)(5) — the first-aid list goes no further than removing splinters or foreign material by tweezers, irrigation, or other simple means, and extracting an embedded arrow and closing the wound is well past that). Any days recuperating are days away (1904.7(b)(3)). And the career change is its own trigger: when an injury results in the employee being transferred to another job because they can no longer perform their routine functions, the case is recorded as a restricted work/job transfer case (29 CFR 1904.7(b)(4)). Desk duty for a formerly patrolling guard is the definition of a job transfer.
The takeaway hiding in the meme: reassignment is a recording criterion all by itself. Employers routinely miss that a case with zero days away still goes on the log the moment the injured employee is moved to lighter duty. The knee heals; the (b)(4) column is forever.