Opening an Injury or Illness Case

Access the Injury/Illness Case form.

Case Number/Description

Enter a unique number assigned to identify the injury or illness case. You can enter a number or let the system assign one. If you leave this field blank, the system assigns the next available number.

Case Description

Enter a brief description of the occupational injury or illness, including the part or parts of the employee body that are affected.

Individual

Enter the employee number, TAX ID (Tax Identification), or Alternate number, depending on the employee number mode that is set up in the Payroll Constants for company 00000.

Case Status

Enter a code that indicates the current status of the occupational injury or illness case. You define this code using defined code table 08/CS. When you set up this table, you can enter more than one code that indicates that a case is closed. For each closed code, you must enter the letter X in the Description-2 field.