§ 176.871 — Report of Illness of Employee, Hearing on Claim
Plain-Language Summary
This section covers public employees at state, county, or city sanitariums, medical laboratories, or institutions employing licensed nurses who contract tuberculosis on the job. When the institution's superintendent or department head learns an employee whose duties involve patient contact or contaminated material has contracted tuberculosis at work, they must report the illness to the Workers' Compensation Division. The commissioner of labor and industry then sends the employee claim forms and sets the claim for hearing in the same manner as other public employees' workers' compensation claims.
176.871 REPORT OF ILLNESS OF EMPLOYEE, HEARING ON CLAIM.
Whenever the superintendent of any state, county or city sanitarium, medical laboratories or other institution, or the head of any department of the state or of any county, city, nursing district or other subdivision of the state employing licensed nurses, learns that any employee of the institution or department whose duties bring the employee in contact with patients or inmates or who works in and around any tuberculosis contaminated material, has contracted tuberculosis while employed in the institution or department, the superintendent or department head shall report the illness to the Workers’ Compensation Division. Copies of the report shall be sent to the Direct Care and Treatment executive board if a state institution; to the head of the department if a department of the state; to the county board if a county institution or department; or to the governing body of the city or other subdivision of the state which employs the afflicted person. The commissioner of labor and industry, upon receiving the report, shall mail to the superintendent of the institution or the head of the department blank forms to be filled out by the employee claiming the medical and sanitarium treatment and compensation provided for in this chapter. The commissioner of labor and industry shall set the claim on for hearing and determination in the same manner as claims of other public employees under the workers’ compensation law are heard and determined.
History:
1947 c 616 s 2; 1949 c 558 s 3; 1957 c 31 s 2; Ex1967 c 1 s 6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 388 s 166; 1975 c 359 s 23; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 2024 c 79 art 9 s 9; art 10 s 1; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38
History: History: 1947 c 616 s 2; 1949 c 558 s 3; 1957 c 31 s 2; Ex1967 c 1 s 6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 388 s 166; 1975 c 359 s 23; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 2024 c 79 art 9 s 9; art 10 s 1; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38