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Employees Compensation Act

Section:10-B :Reports Of Fatal Accident And Serious Injury

Obligation : To report fatal accidents and serious bodily injuries

Type:Trigger Frequency: Quarterly

Action to be taken:
Where an accident occurs on the premises that results in death or serious bodily injury to an employee, submit a notice within 7 days of the incident to the Commissioner. If prescribed by the State Government, send the notice to the specified authority instead of the Commissioner.

Audit Requirement:
In case of any fatal injuries or accidents, has a report been made to all the prescribed authorities ?

Supporting Documents:
Copy of Report

Related Triggers:
Accident Causing Death
Accident Causing Injury
Death Of An Employee
Injury To An Employee

Related Keywords:
Accident
Death of Employee
Fatal Accident
Injury To Employee
Workmens Compensation

Related Sections:
Employees Compensation Act, 1923
Chapter:Employees Compensation| 10-B:Reports of fatal accidents and serious bodily injuries:
(1) Where, by any law for the time being in force, notice is required to be given to any authority, by or on behalf of an employer, of any accident occurring on his premises which results in death or serious bodily injury, the person required to give the notice shall within seven days of the death or serious bodily injury, send a report to the Commissioner giving the circumstances attending the death or serious bodily injury :

Provided that where the State Government has so prescribed the person required to give the notice may instead of sending such report to the Commissioner send it to the authority to whom he is required to give the notice.

Explanation.- "Serious bodily injury" means an injury which involves, or in all probability will involve, the permanent loss of the use of, or permanent injury to, any limb, or the permanent loss of or injury to the sight or hearing, or the fracture of any limb, or the enforced absence of the injured person from work for a period exceeding twenty days.

(2) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of sub-section (1) to any class of premises other than those coming within the scope of that sub-section, and may, by such notification, specify the persons who shall send the report to the Commissioner.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the factories to which the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1941), applies.