Student injuries

Reporting a Student Injury

Students injured in class or on a field trip that are not student assistants or participating in a work study program, are not covered under workers’ compensation. Students injured while working from a Grant or Intern program will be handled as per the contract. Graduate students are covered under workers’ compensation.

Students

Students injured in your class or on a field trip are not covered under workers' compensation. However, the injury must be reported. Please use the Accident Report form to report these injuries.

Notification of these injuries should be sent to the Risk Management department located in Welch Hall (WH) 470G. Please send them the original and keep a copy. Contact Risk Management at (310) 243-3867 or email riskmanagement@csudh.edu.

Student Assistants

When a student assistant (includes volunteers and student assistants in a work-study program) becomes injured, ill, or involved in a near-miss incident they must be provided with an Employee/Volunteer Report of Injury/Illness form to complete and submit to Human Resources Management.

Under Workers’ Compensation, volunteers, student assistants, or students who are injured or become ill while on a work-study program may be viewed as employees and may be eligible for most benefits available to regular employees.

Graduate Students

If the student was working as a graduate student during the incident, an Employee/Volunteer Report of Injury/Illness form must be filled out; do not fill out the Accident Report form.

For more information, please contact the Workers’ Compensation Coordinator at (310) 243-3771.