Emergency Notification and Incident Reporting

Emergency

  1. Notify the Department of Public Safety (DPS) at (213) 740-4321 or (323) 442-1000. For a non-emergency, dial (213) 740-6000.
  2. Notify EH&S immediately at (323) 442-2200 or ehs@usc.edu to report the injury/incident.
  3. Notify the supervisor.

Non-Life-Threatening Workplace Injury or Illness

Faculty, Staff, or Volunteers

  1. Immediately report any injury or illness to your supervisor, Principal Investigator (PI), or HR Partner.
  2. Contact USC’s workers’ compensation administrator, CorVel, by calling (833) 202-5216. A nurse will triage and help you locate an approved medical facility for treatment.
  3. Submit completed Workers’ Compensation Claim Form DWC-1 to your supervisor or HR Partner.
  4. After each medical appointment, provide work status updates to your HR Partner and CorVel.

USC Students

  1. Immediately report any injury or illness to your supervisor if you are a student worker, graduate student, or working in a lab
  2. Contact USC Student Health: (213) 740-9355 UPC
    • (323) 442-5631 HSC
  3. Speak to an appointment representative and follow instructions.

NOTE: If calling after business hours, students will be transferred to an on-call physician or nurse.

Supervisors

  1. Find out what happened – you are the first line of defense.
  2. Instruct employee to contact USC’s workers’ compensation administrator, CorVel, by calling (833) 202-5216.
  3. Complete a Manager’s Report of Incident Form (or Volunteer’s Injury or Illness Report) and the Workers’ Compensation DWC-1 form.
    • Send the completed form to your HR representative.

Visit the Workers’ Compensation Website for more details.

If any injury or illness (Faculty, Staff, Students, Volunteers, or Visitors) occurs inside a laboratory at USC, notify EH&S at ehs@usc.edu.

Incident Reporting

Cal-OSHA regulations require that employers must immediately report any work-related death or serious injury or illness. Immediate means as soon as practically possible but not longer than 8 hours after the employer knows or with diligent inquiry would have known of the death or serious injury or illness. EH&S personnel will make notifications to the Cal-OSHA District office as required.Cal-OSHA defines a “serious injury or illness” {T8 CCR 330(h)} if the employee:

  • Requires hospitalization for a period in excess of 24 hours for other than medical observation; OR
  • Suffers a loss of any member of the body; OR
  • Suffers any serious degree of permanent disfigurement.

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