TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES
DIVISION 9: LABOR
§ 9339. Reports. (a) Within 10 days of the date of any injury or death, or of the date that the employer has knowledge of such injury or of a disease or infection in respect to such injury, the employer shall send to the administrator a report setting forth: (1) The name, address, and business of the employer; (2) The name, address, and occupation of the employee; (3) The cause and nature of the injury or death or of the disease or infection arising from such injury; (4) The year, month, day and hour, and the particular locality where the injury or death occurred; and (5) Such other information as the commission may require. A copy of such report shall be sent at the same time to the employee. (b) Additional reports in respect of such injury and of the condition of such employee shall be sent by the employer to the administrator at such times and in such manner as the commission may prescribe. (c) Any report provided for in subsections (a) or (b) of this section shall not be evidence of any fact stated in such report in any proceeding in respect of any injury or death concerning which the report is made. (d) The employer may comply with the obligations of this section by mailing any required report, with a copy thereof, first class and postage prepaid, to the administrator within the appropriate time limit prescribed in subsection (a) or (b) of this section. (e) Any employer who fails or refuses to send any report required of it by this section shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500 for each such failure or refusal. (f) Where the employer or the carrier has been given notice, or the employer (or his agent in charge of the business in the place where the injury or death of an employee occurs) fails, neglects, or refuses to file a report thereof as required by the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the limitations in 4 CMC § 9322(a) shall not begin to run against the claim of the injured employee or the employee’s survivors entitled to compensation, or in favor of either the employer or the carrier, until such report shall have been furnished. Source: PL 6-33, § 1 (§ 9339).