USCC Workers Comp 2024 - 116

Chart XII-Employer's Report of Accidents, cont.
Jurisdiction
Keeping of
Accident Records
by Employer
South
Carolina
Required
Reporting Requirements1
Injuries
All injuries wherein medical attention cost
exceeds $500; or results in more than one day's
disability; or results in permanency; or employer
uses insurance coverage to satisfy any portion
of claim; or employer denies liability for injury/
claim.
South
Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia26
Required
Required
Required
Required
Required
Required
Washington Required
Disability of seven days or more, other than first
aid or injuries requiring medical treatment
A Report of Injury must be filed when employee
receives medical care outside of employer's
premises.
Lost time of more than one day or death/an
occupational disease
All injuries, other than those requiring first aid.
Disability of one day or more or requiring medical
care
All injuries
Injury and occupational diseases sustained by
any worker in employment who has received
treatment from a physician or ARNP, has been
hospitalized, disabled from work, or has died as
the apparent result of such injury or occupational
disease
Time Limit
Within 10 days10
Penalties for Failure to Report
Maximum
Fine ($)
100 per refusal,
can be doubled
Minimum
Fine ($)
10 per refusal,
can be doubled
Imprisonment
Within seven days
Within 14 days
Within eight days25
Within seven days
Within 72 hours; Sundays
and legal holidays
excluded
Within 10 days10
Any potential or actual
worker death and every
in-patient hospitalization
incident within eight
hours of learning about
it; for nonhospitalized
amputation or loss of
an eye (organ) within 24
hours of the incident.
West
Virginia
Self-insured employers
need to keep records
for not less than 10
years, possibly more,
if the matter is the
subject of litigation.
Wisconsin
Wyoming
American
Samoa
Virgin
Islands
FECA
Longshore
Act
Alberta
Required
Required
Required
Required
No provision
Required
Required
All injuries
Within five days
100
Up to 30 days
25 per each 15
days
Up to 25,000 per
day per offense
500
5,000
5,000
2,500
500
250
25
500 per offense
Fatalities
Disability beyond three-day waiting period
All injuries
Death, injury, or disease
Injury or disease
All injuries resulting in medical expenses,
disability, or death
All injuries resulting in loss of one or more shifts
or death
All injuries that disable or require medical aid
Within 24 hours
Within 14 days
Within 10 days
Within 10 days of
employer notification
Within eight days
Within 10 working days
10 days
72 hours27, 28
24,730
25,000 plus
10,000 per day
for continuing
offense
British
Columbia
Manitoba
Required
Death cases-injuries arising out of and in the
course of employment must be reported by the
employer. All injuries not specifically excepted
must be reported.
No provision
All accidents that disable or require medical aid
Immediately or within
three days
Five business days
5,684.9529
Up to six months
100
750
500 per offense
500
Up to six months
10
Up to six months
50030
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