You, as the employer, or your designated manager or supervisor should sit down with the employee making the claim. Get a complete accident description. Determine which part of the body was injured. Interview the witnesses separately and as soon as possible.
Memories are better shortly after the incident.
Make notes or written reports and ask the witness to verify what you wrote down, or ask them to write their own observations, and sign and date the report. Determine if it was physically possible to have sustained the injury in the fashion described. If you have doubts, advise us accordingly. If an accident is not immediately reported, ask for a detailed explanation of why. Document all of the above and submit to your Workers Compensation carrier with the fully completed Employer s First Report of Notice of Occupational Injury or Occupational Disease as soon as possible.