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When dealing with Workers' Compensation, avoid making statements that could undermine your claim. For example, don't admit fault or downplay your injury severity. Be truthful and stick to the facts when discussing your situation, as you will need accurate information for your Arkansas Report of Occupational Injury or Illness.
When an incident is reported quickly it allows the injured worker the opportunity to receive quick and proper treatment that may be needed. Sometimes an employee may believe they have a minor injury and decide not to report it or get the injury evaluated which may cause it to become worse.
From a health and safety perspective, reporting hazards, incidents and injuries is a matter of prevention. The idea is to prevent accidents from happening in the first place. If one has already occurred, then the goal is to prevent it from occurring again.
As an important element of enterprise occupational safety and health management systems, employers need to record information about accidents and diseases as well as dangerous occurrences which have arisen, along with the results of their investigation.
For workers Reporting a workplace injury is your right. If you are unsure about your injury, report it. The sooner we receive your information, the faster we can process your benefits and provide you with the support you need.
An injury or illness is considered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.
While you do have two years from the date of injury to file a claim with the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission, injured employees should not delay. Once you miss this deadline, you will be barred from asserting a claim for workers' compensation benefits.
Employers must report work-related fatalities within 8 hours of finding out about it. For any in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss employers must report the incident within 24 hours of learning about it. Only fatalities occurring within 30 days of the work-related incident must be reported to OSHA.
All employers are required to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye. A fatality must be reported within 8 hours. An in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss must be reported within 24 hours.
The employer must report a workplace injury within 7 days or within 14 days of finding out that you have an occupational disease.