(1) A physician, hospital, clinic, or employer knowing of an individual having a case of occupational disease or a health condition aggravated by workplace exposures shall report the case to the department within 10 days after the discovery of the occupational disease or condition.
  (2) A physician, hospital, clinic, or employer knowing of a suspected case of occupational disease or a health condition aggravated by workplace exposures shall report the case to the department within 10 days after the discovery of the occupational disease or condition.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 333.5611

  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • occupational disease: means an illness of the human body arising out of and in the course of an individual's employment and having 1 or more of the following characteristics:
  (a) It is caused by a frequently repeated or continuous exposure to a hazardous substance or agent or to a specific industrial practice which is hazardous and which has continued over an extended period of time. See Michigan Laws 333.5601
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
    •   (3) The report shall state the name and address of the individual, the name and business address of the employer, the business of the employer, the place of the individual’s employment, the length of time of employment in the place where the individual became ill, the nature of the disease, and other information required by the department.
      (4) The department shall prepare and furnish the report forms and instructions for their use to physicians, hospitals, clinics, and employers.
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