Pennsylvania Act 1913-408 — EMPLOYEE INJURY REPORTING LAW

Act text

EMPLOYEE INJURY REPORTING LAW
                 Act of Jul. 19, 1913, P.L. 843, No. 408              Cl. 43
                                  AN ACT

     Requiring employers to make report to the Department of Labor
        and Industry of accidents to employees, and prescribing a
        penalty for non-compliance therewith.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That within fifteen days
     after the date of any injury received by an employee in the
     course of or resulting from his employment, and within forty-
     eight hours of the death of an employee occurring from an injury
     received in the course of or resulting from his employment, the
     employer, whether a person, firm, or corporation, or the
     Commonwealth, or any political subdivision thereof, shall make
     report of such injury or death directly to the Department of
     Labor and Industry. Such report shall be made in such form as
     the Department of Labor and Industry shall prescribe, and shall
     set forth the name, address, and nature of the business of the
     employer; name, address, sex, age, nationality, wage or salary,
     and occupation of the employee; date, day of week, hour, place,
     cause, and character of the injury or death, and in the case of
     an injury, the nature of the injury, and the duration of the
     disability, or probable disability, as far as the same can be
     ascertained. Such employer shall, also, upon request of the
     Department of Labor and Industry, make such further report as
     may reasonably be required by it.
        (1 amended Mar. 10, 1937, P.L.56, No.19)
        Section 2.  Any person, firm, or corporation having knowledge
     of the occurrence of such personal injury or death to an
     employee, in the course of or resulting from his employment, who
     shall fail to make report as aforesaid, shall, upon conviction
     thereof in a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine of
     not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or undergo
     imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both, at the
     discretion of the court.
        (2 amended Mar. 10, 1937, P.L.56, No.19)
        Section 3.  Reports made in accordance with this act shall
     not be evidence against the employer in any proceeding, either
     under the Workmen's Compensation Law of one thousand nine
     hundred and fifteen or otherwise.
        (3 amended Mar. 10, 1937, P.L.56, No.19)
        Section 4.  No employer who has made the report required by
     this act shall be required to make any other or further report
     of such injury or death to any other department of the
     government of the Commonwealth.
        (4 amended Mar. 10, 1937, P.L.56, No.19)
        Section 5.  This act shall not apply to casual employments;
     nor to injuries resulting in disability continuing less than the
     day shift or turn in which the injury was received.
        (5 amended Mar. 10, 1937, P.L.56, No.19)