Section 7 AAC 27.017 - Reporting of occupational disease and injury(a) A health care provider who attends to a person with a disease, injury, or other condition of public health importance that is known or suspected to be a result of the person's occupation or work activities shall report the disease, injury, or other condition to the department. Diseases and injuries that are known or suspected to be due to a person's occupation include (1) Pneumoconiosis requiring hospitalization; and (2) work-related injuries requiring hospitalization, including a thermal, electrical, or penetrating injury and urgent care for amputation. (b) To meet the reporting requirements of (a) of this section, a health care provider shall submit a report to the department orally, electronically, or on a department-provided form not later than five working days after first discovering or suspecting the existence of the disease, injury, or other condition. Each report must give the name, address, date of birth, sex, ethnicity, and race of the person diagnosed as having the reported disease, injury, or other condition and the name and address of the health care provider reporting the disease, injury, or other condition. (c) In this section, (1) "hospitalization" means any admission to a health care facility for treatment, excluding admission only for observation purposes; in this paragraph, "health care facility" has the meaning given in AS 18.07.011; (2) "penetrating injury" does not include an injury from a needle stick; (3) "work activity" (A) means a job that a person does using physical or mental effort, for money or wages, as a volunteer, or for something of value other than money or wages, including bartered reciprocation, work experience, and on-the-job training; (B) includes full- or part-time employment in the public or private sector, self-employment, seasonal employment, apprenticeships, and internships.Eff. 3/28/84, Register 89; am 12/29/2006, Register 180; am 5/3/2007, Register 182; am 12/29/2013, Register 208, January 2014Authority:AS 18.05.010
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