AB 54 — Revises provisions relating to reports of certain accidents or motor vehicle crashes by employers. (BDR 53-160)

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54–COMMITTEE ON C OMMERCE AND L ABOR (ON B EHALF OF THE D IVISION OFINDUSTRIAL R ELATIONS OF THE D EPARTMENT OF B USINESS AND NDUSTRY ) PREFILED N OVEMBER 17, 2016 ____________ Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to reports of certain accidents or motor vehicle crashes by employers.

(BDR 53-160) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

No.

Effect on the State:

Yes.

~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

Existing law requires an employer to report to the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry any accident or motor vehicle crash which is fatal to one or more employees or which results in the hospitalization of three or more employees within 8 hours after the time the 618.378) This bill retains the 8-hour reporting requirement for fatalities, but requires an employer to report to the Division any accident or motor vehicle crash which results in inpatient hospitalization of an employee, the amputation of a part of an employee’s body or an employee’s loss of an eye within 24 hours after the time the accident or crash is reported to any agent or employee of the employer.

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This bill also requires the employer to report the names of the employees who suffered fatalities, amputations or loss of an eye or who were admitted to a hospital as inpatients.

EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

- 79th Session (2017) – 2 – (c) The number of employees [killed or hospitalized] who were hospitalized as inpatients or who suffered fatalities, amputations or loss of an eye as a result of the accident or crash;

¬ Upon receipt of such a report, the Division shall notify the employer of the estimated time that the Division’s investigator will arrive at the site of the accident or crash.

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