Section 6413 Of Chapter 3. Responsibilities And Duties Of Employers And Employees From California Labor Code >> Division 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3.
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. (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and
every physician or surgeon who attends any injured state prisoner,
shall file with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health a
complete report, on forms prescribed under Sections 6409 and 6409.1,
of every injury to each state prisoner, resulting from any labor
performed by the prisoner unless disability resulting from such
injury does not last through the day or does not require medical
service other than ordinary first aid treatment.
(b) Where the injury results in death a report, in addition to the
report required by subdivision (a), shall forthwith be made by the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to the Division of
Occupational Safety and Health by telephone or telegraph.
(c) Except as provided in Section 6304.2, nothing in this section
or in this code shall be deemed to make a prisoner an employee, for
any purpose, of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), no physician or surgeon who
attends any injured state prisoner outside of a Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation institution shall be required to file
the report required by subdivision (a), but the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation shall file the report.