Workers' Compensation Notice (Summary) and Injury Reporting Requirements
for faculty, professional staff, and student employees
Workers' Compensation is designed to provide wage loss benefits and reimbursement for reasonable medical care expenses to employees, including student workers, who are injured, or become ill, through the course of their employment. The information below provides a summary of Workers' Compensation benefits and procedures. Please see the Injury Report Form for Work-related Injury or Illness and Workers' Compensation Notice for details and information regarding your rights and obligations under the law.
Notification of a Work-related Injury or Illness
If a member of the faculty or professional staff, or a student employee, is injured while performing his/her job duties, or suffers an injury or illness as a result of the workplace or tasks that the individual must perform, he/she must:
(2) complete an Injury Report Form no later than within 24 hours of the injury whenever possible, have it signed by the supervisor, and submit it to Human Resources, College Square, and
(3) read and sign a Workers' Compensation Notice, and send the original with signature to Human Resources.
If the injured / ill employee is unable to report the injury and complete an Injury Report Form due to the injury, the employee's supervisor must contact Human Resources and must complete the form to the best of his/her ability on behalf of the injured employee.
Student workers injured while performing work for wages for the College must report injuries to Human Resources (291-3996) and to their supervisor, and must complete an Injury Report Form.
If an employee or student worker is absent from work for a full day or shift due to a work-related injury or illness, the employee is required to notify Human Resources (291-3996) on the first day he/she is absent from work.
Medical Treatment Following a Work-related Injury or Illness
The College has selected a panel of physicians and other health care providers who are available to treat work-related injuries and illness. In order to assure payment through Workers' Compensation insurance, care must be received from a health care provider on the College's list during the first 90 days of treatment. An employee may receive treatment, during the first 90 days, from a health care provider not on the College's list if referred by a provider who is on the list.
In a medical emergency, an employee should be transported immediately to a hospital emergency room for treatment, or may seek immediate treatment from a health care provider of his/her choosing. In a medical emergency, the individual should be transported by ambulance. The employee must be seen by one of the health care providers on the College's list following the emergency, in order for medical expenses to be covered.
Workers' Compensation Benefits
Benefits are provided to employees who incur injuries or illness arising from, and in the course of, their employment with Franklin & Marshall. In the event of a compensable work-related injury or illness, employees are entitled to reimbursement for reasonable and necessary surgical and medical services and supplies, and orthopedic appliances and prosthesis, including training in their use. If lost work time, or modified work duty, is necessary, wage loss benefits will be provided in accordance with PA Workers' Compensation laws. Unpaid Family & Medical Leave, if applicable, will run concurrently with any necessary, approved time away from work due to a compensable injury or illness (as noted above, wage loss benefits will be provided based on the Workers' Compensation Act). An employee may not use paid sick days and/or paid vacation days on any day(s) he/she receives wages per the Workers' Compensation Act.
Please see the Injury Report Form for Work-related Injury or Illness and Workers' Compensation Notice for details and information regarding your rights and obligations under the law.
