Rule 14. Notice of accidents

(1) When any accident which results in the death of any person, the employer of the establishment, shall inform the Registering Officer or Designated Authority as the case may be, and the Inspector-cum-Facilitator within twelve hours from time of accident and shall also inform the following:

(a) District Magistrate or Sub-Divisional Magistrate;

(b) The Officer-in-charge of the Police Station;

(c) the family of the injured or deceased person; and

(d) to the authorities of the concerned state in case of inter-state migrant worker.

(2) An information given as required under sub-rule (1) shall be subsequently confirmed by the employer of the establishment to the authorities mentioned in sub- rule (1) within twenty-four hours of the accident by sending them a report in Form-9.

(3) When any accident takes place in an establishment and it causes such bodily injury to any person as prevents the person injured from working for a period of forty- eight hours or more immediately following the accident the employer of the establishment shall send a report thereof to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator in Form-9 within twenty-four hours after the expiry of the forty-eight hours from the time of the accident:

Provided that if in the case of an accident, death occurs of any person injured by such accident after the notices and reports referred to in the foregoing sub-rule have been sent, the employer of the establishment shall forthwith send an intimation thereof by telephone, special messenger or email to the authorities and persons mentioned in sub-rules (1);

Provided further that, if the period of disability from working for forty-eight hours or more referred to in sub-rule (4) does not occur immediately following the accident but later on occurs in more than one spell, the report shall be sent to the Registering Officer as Designated Authority as the case may be and the Chief Inspector-Cum-Facilitator in Form-9 within twenty-four hours immediately following the hour when the actual total period of disability from working resulting from the accident becomes forty-eight hours.