Report an injury or illness

Report your injury or illness

If you are injured or become ill at work

1. Get medical help

Get first aid right away

• See a health professional or go to a hospital if you need further treatment
• Your employer pays for transportation on the day of the injury

Report an employee's injury or illness

Businesses

• Provide first aid treatment and keep accurate records of the treatment provided
• If your employee needs health care treatment, you must either transport them to the health professional or pay the cost of their transportation on the day of the injury.

• Tell your employer about your injury or illness and any medical treatment you received as soon as possible. Provide as much detail as possible.

• When an employee experiences a work-related injury or illness, get details about the injury or illness and its cause as reported by the employee
• Document this information, along with your first aid record

Report your injury or illness if:

• you need treatment from a health professional (beyond first aid), or
• you're unable to go to work, or
• you're being paid less or receiving fewer hours of work, or
• you require modified work at regular pay for more than seven calendar days

You do not have to report your injury or illness to us if all three of the following apply:

• you only needed first aid, and
• you did not take any time off work, and
• your pay was not affected, and you didn’t perform modified work for more than seven calendar days

If your dentures, glasses and/or artificial appliances are damaged in a workplace accident, you are eligible to claim benefits for repairing or replacing these devices even if you have no other injuries.

Your employer must report your injury or illness to us within three business days and give you a copy of their report.

How to report

Options

1) Sign up for online services and report through your account

• Report your injury, illness or exposure incident through our secure online services. When you sign up for online services and report through your account, you can provide us with the information we need to quickly process your claim and get updates faster. You can also start using the online services features right away to view your claim information, send us a message and sign up for direct deposit.

2) Fill out a Form 6 PDF and submit online

• Fill out and save a

  Worker’s Report of Injury/Disease (Form 6)
   and submit it online. You’ll need to create an online services account to submit.

3) Fill out a Form 6 PDF or mail it

• Fill out and save a

  Worker’s Report of Injury/Disease (Form 6)
   and send by mail to:

  The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
  200 Front Street West
  Toronto, ON
  M5V 3J1

   

You must report a workplace injury or illness within three business days of learning about it if your employee:

• needs treatment from a health professional, or
• was absent from work, or
• earns less than regular pay (e.g. working fewer hours or being paid less per hour), or
• requires modified work at less than regular pay, or
• requires modified work at regular pay for more than seven calendar days following the date of accident

You must provide a copy of the injury or illness report to your employee. You must pay your employee a full day’s wage on the day of the incident.

Your reporting obligation begins if your employee requires modified work for more than seven calendar days at regular pay. We must receive your Employer’s report of injury (Form 7) within three business days of the eighth calendar day of modified work.

How to report

1) Sign up for online services and report through your account

• You can report an injury, illness, exposure incident, noise-induced hearing loss or fatality through our secure online services. When you sign up for online services and report through your account, you can provide us with the information we need to quickly process claims and get updates faster. Once a claim is registered, you can log in to View my claims, to see high-level claim information, submit claim-related documents, and send us a message about the claim, anytime.
• You must provide a copy of the injury or illness report to your employee. You can download a copy from the online reporting service.
• You must pay your employee for a full day’s wages on the day of the incident. WSIB benefits start the day after the injury or illness happens, if allowed. 
• You must provide a copy of the injury or illness report to your employee.
• You must pay your employee for a full day’s wages on the day of the incident. WSIB benefits start the day after the injury or illness happens, if allowed. 

• You have six months from the date of injury or date of diagnosis to claim benefits by reporting your injury or illness to the WSIB.
• When in doubt, report. It's always better to report your injury or illness to the WSIB, even if you don't think you're covered.
• You should report your workplace injury or illness even if:
  • your supervisor or manager tells you not to report, or that you will lose your job if you report it
  • your employer tells you that your injury or illness is not covered by the WSIB
  • your employer tells you to use sick days to recover from a workplace injury or illness, rather than report it
• You have options for choosing a health professional

• We must receive your completed accident report within three business days after your reporting obligation begins
• You are responsible for reporting an injury or illness of anyone you employ in your business including family, seasonal or temporary employees, certain domestic employees, people doing construction work, students, apprentices and training participants
• You must report all cases of  needle stick injury, unless you have a surveillance protocol in place – that is a formal process to test and monitor a person exposed to an infectious disease
• If you are not sure whether the injury or illness is work-related, you should still report it to us. We make the decision whether an injury or illness is work-related or not
• It is against the law to discourage reporting of a workplace injury or illness. You could face a financial penalty as well as prosecution for not reporting, reporting late, not giving all the details requested, giving false or inaccurate details, or discouraging your employees from reporting