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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 152, § 6 (2026)

Notice of injuries; forms; additional reports; statistical summaries

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Section 6. Within seven calendar days, not including Sundays and legal holidays, of receipt of notice of any injury alleged to have arisen out of and in the course of employment which incapacitates an employee from earning full wages for a period of five or more calendar days, the employer shall furnish notice of the injury to the division of administration, the employee and insurer. The notice shall be submitted on a form prescribed by the division and shall contain the name and nature of the business of the employer, the name, age, sex, and occupation of the injured employee, and the date, nature, circumstances and cause of the injury and such additional information as the division shall prescribe.

The commissioner may require employers with those standard industry codes with the highest number of injuries or claims to provide proof of insurance coverage as required by this chapter. The commissioner may utilize information provided by the department of unemployment assistance and the department of revenue to ascertain the addresses of the employers with such industry codes.

Additional reports may be required from employers, insurers and medical services providers with respect to such injury and of the condition of such employee, including copies of medical, hospital, and rehabilitation reports and records, and the payments made or to be made for compensation shall be filed with the division of administration at such times and in such manner as the division may prescribe.

The division of administration shall prepare statistical summaries of reports filed under this section.

The provisions of this section shall apply also to the head of each employing board, commission and department of the commonwealth and of the several counties, cities, towns and districts subject to the provisions of section sixty-nine and copies of the report hereby required shall be furnished to the appropriate retirement board, if any, and to the agent set forth in section seventy-five or the insurer, if any.

Any person who violates the provision of this section three or more times in any year shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars for each such violation. Each failure to pay a fine within thirty days of receipt of a bill from the department shall be considered a separate violation.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 21 cases, 1922–2016 · leading case: Lee v. Int'l Data Grp., 769 N.E.2d 761 (Mass. App. Ct. 2002).
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Lee v. Int'l Data Grp., 769 N.E.2d 761 (Mass. App. Ct. 2002). · cites it 3× “152, § 7, because that obligation is not triggered until the insurer receives either “an employer’s first report of injury,” which must be submitted on a form prescribed by DIA, G. L. c. 152, § 6; or “an initial written claim for weekly benefits on a form prescribed by the…”
Georgiou v. Comm'r of Dep't of Indus. Accidents, 854 N.E.2d 130 (Mass. App. Ct. 2006). · cites it 2× “Under G. L. c. 152, § 6, inserted by St. 1991, c.”
Ins. Co. of the State of Pennsylvania v. Great N. Ins. Co., 45 N.E.3d 1283 (Mass. 2016). “3 Under G. L. c. 152, § 6, the failure of an employer to notify the Department of Industrial Accidents or the workers’ compensation insurers of the injury “shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars for each such violation” but is punishable only if the employer violates…”
McCarty's Case, 837 N.E.2d 669 (Mass. 2005). “, G. L. c. 152, §§ 6 & 7, as appearing in St.”
Kareske's Case, 145 N.E. 301 (Mass. 1924). · cites it 2× “One, G. L. c. 152, §§ 6, 7, 11, by a voluntary accord between the parties upon the facts of liability, extent of incapacity and quantum of compensation; the other, G.”
HDH Corp. v. Atl. Charter Ins., 681 N.E.2d 847 (Mass. 1997). “Atlantic argued that, by failing to assert the exclusivity defense and to file a notice of claim for workers’ compensation benefits with the Department of Industrial Accidents (department), see G. L. c. 152, § 6, HDH had waived any right to coverage under Part One of the…”
Cornetta's Case, 860 N.E.2d 687 (Mass. App. Ct. 2007). “, G. L. c. 152, §§ 6 (notice of “injury”), 24 (waiver of common-law right as to “injury”), 26 (right of compensation for industrial “injury”), 26A (compensability of death by suicide “due to the injury”).”
Perkins's Case, 180 N.E. 142 (Mass. 1932). “It is provided by G. L. c. 152, § 6, that when the employee and the insurer have reached an agreement as to compensation “a memorandum thereof shall be filed with the department, and, if approved by it, the memorandum shall for all purposes be enforceable under section eleven.”
Ferreira v. Arrow Mut. Liab. Ins., 447 N.E.2d 1258 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “See G. L. c. 152, § 6. Hansen’s Case, 350 Mass.”
Ellis v. Dep't of Indus. Accidents, 463 Mass. 541 (Mass. 2012). “, G. L. c. 152, §§ 6, 10, 14, 30A. And it provides for the imposition of penalties if it is *559 determined that, in any proceeding within the division of dispute resolution, a party, including an attorney, has “concealed or knowingly failed to disclose that which is required to…”
Bertocchi's Case, 791 N.E.2d 384 (Mass. App. Ct. 2003). “178, 180 (1966) (“A lump sum agreement has been held to be ‘an agreement in regard to compensation’ which requires board approval under G. L. c. 152, § 6 [the predecessor to § 19]”).”
Thayer's Case, 185 N.E.2d 292 (Mass. 1962). “3 The claim for extra or double compensation under § 28 was filed on July 25, 1960. The resolution of the issue as to whether the claim for extra compensation was seasonably filed requires an analysis of the pertinent sections of the statute.”
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