---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 930"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "930"
heading: "Reports to Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/930"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §930. Reports to Secretary

- (a) **Time for sending; contents; copy to deputy commissioner—** Within ten days from the date of any [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2), which causes loss of one or more shifts of work, or death or from the date that the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) has knowledge of a disease or infection in respect of such [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2), the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) shall send to the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) a report setting forth (1) the name, address, and business of the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4); (2) the name, address, and occupation of the [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3); (3) the cause and nature of the [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) or death; (4) the year, month, day, and hour when and the particular locality where the [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) or death occurred; and (5) such other information as the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) may require. A copy of such report shall be sent at the same time to the [deputy commissioner](/usc/33/902.md?p=7) in the [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) district in which the [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) occurred. Notwithstanding the requirements of this subsection, each [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) shall keep a record of each and every [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) regardless of whether such [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) results in the loss of one or more shifts of work.
- (b) **Additional reports—** Additional reports in respect of such [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) and of the condition of such [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3) shall be sent by the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) to the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) and to such [deputy commissioner](/usc/33/902.md?p=7) at such times and in such manner as the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) may prescribe.
- (c) **Use as evidence—** Any report provided for in subsection [(a)](#a) or [(b)](#b) shall not be evidence of any fact stated in such report in any proceeding in respect of such [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) or death on account of which the report is made.
- (d) **Compliance by mailing—** The mailing of any such report and copy in a stamped envelope, within the time prescribed in subsections [(a)](#a) or [(b)](#b), to the [Secretary](/usc/33/902.md?p=6) and [deputy commissioner](/usc/33/902.md?p=7), respectively, shall be a compliance with this section.
- (e) **Penalty for failure or refusal to send report—** Any [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4), insurance [carrier](/usc/33/902.md?p=5), or self-insured [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) who knowingly and willfully fails or refuses to send any report required by this section or knowingly or willfully makes a false statement or misrepresentation in any such report shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each such failure, refusal, false statement, or misrepresentation.
- (f) **Tolling provision—** Where the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) or the [carrier](/usc/33/902.md?p=5) has been given notice, or the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) (or his agent in charge of the business in the place where the [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) occurred) or the [carrier](/usc/33/902.md?p=5) has knowledge, of any [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) or death of an [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3) and fails, neglects, or refuses to file report thereof as required by the provisions of [subsection (a)](#a) of this section, the limitations in subsection (a) of [section 913 of this title](/usc/33/913.md) shall not begin to run against the claim of the injured [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3) or his dependents entitled to [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12), or in favor of either the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) or the [carrier](/usc/33/902.md?p=5), until such report shall have been furnished as required by the provisions of [subsection (a)](#a) of this section.

## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 30, 44 Stat. 1439; June 25, 1938, ch. 685, § 11, 52 Stat. 1167; Pub. L. 98–426, §§ 18, 27(a)(2), Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1650, 1654.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–426, § 18(a)(1), inserted “, which causes loss of one or more shifts of work,” after “Within ten days from the date of any injury”.

Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted “Secretary” for “commission”. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.

Pub. L. 98–426, § 18(a)(2), inserted at end “Notwithstanding the requirements of this subsection, each employer shall keep a record of each and every injury regardless of whether such injury results in the loss of one or more shifts of work.”

Subsecs. (b), (d). Pub. L. 98–426, § 27(a)(2), substituted “Secretary” for “commission”. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 902 of this title.

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 98–426, § 18(b), amended subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (e) read as follows: “Any employer who fails or refuses to send any report required of him by this section shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500 for each such failure or refusal.”

1938—Subsec. (f). Act June 25, 1938, added subsec. (f).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–426 effective Sept. 28, 1984, see section 28(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98–426, set out as a note under section 901 of this title.