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How to Report a Work-Related Injury or Illness (For Employees)

Summary: Follow the steps on this page if you are injured or develop a job-related illness as a result of your employment at UCSC.

What to do:
How to do it:
1 Promptly report the injury/illness to your supervisor.

Inform your supervisor of your work-related injury/illness in one of the following ways:

  • In person
  • By email
  • By telephone
2 If necessary, obtain immediate medical attention. See How to Obtain Medical Care if Injured on the Job.
3 Promptly report the injury/illness to Risk Services.

The employee and supervisor are responsible for completing the UCSC Incident Report (Spanish)and faxing the report to the Office of Risk Services at (831) 459-3268.

If the supervisor is unavailable to complete the report, the employee should complete and immediately fax to Risk Services.

If the employee is unable to complete the Employee section of the report, it is the supervisor's responsibility to complete the report for the employee and immediately fax to Risk Services. If the employee's injury or illness is medically determined to meet the state of CA definition of injury as a workers compensation claim, the Office of Risk Services will provide the employee with a Workers' Compensation Claim Form (DWC-1).

Note that by law an employee has one year from the date of injury to complete and return the Workers' Compensation Claim Form (DWC-1) to ensure consideration of workers' compensation benefits.

Last revised: October 24, 2007 (am)