---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 702.203"
title: "20"
number: "702.203"
heading: "Employer's report; how given."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/702.203"
---

# §702.203. Employer's report; how given.

- (a) The employer must file its report of injury with the district director.
- (b) If the employer sends its report of injury by U.S. postal mail or commercial delivery service, the report will be considered filed on the date that the employer mails the document or gives it to the commercial delivery service. If the employer sends its report of injury by a permissible electronic method, the report will be considered filed on the date that the employer completes all steps necessary for the transmission.

## Notes

### Amendments

[80 FR 12929, Mar. 12, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, and 8171 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[80 FR 12929, Mar. 12, 2015]