Massachusetts

Region
Massachusetts
Required to Report
Yes
State Office
Department of Public Health
Phone 1
617-624-5632
Timeframe to Report Injury or Exposure
10 Days
Web reference
https://www.mass.gov/forms/pesticide-enforcement-complaint-form
Reporting Notes

Visit the Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services How to File a Pesticide Complaint | Mass.gov for more information on occupational disease reporting.You may also view the state's Occupational disease and injury reporting | Mass.gov  for more inforamtion about reporting. 

Mandated to report
PhysiciansHospitalsOther health professionals
WPS Enforcement
Worker Protection Standard Enforcement Agency

Department of Agricultural Resources, Division of Crop and Pest Services: Worker Protection Standard (WPS) | Mass.gov

Legal Services Referral for Violations
  • Pine Tree Legal Assistance (Bangor, ME but also serves other New England states) at 207-942-0673 (http://www.ptla.org)
  • Western Massachusetts Legal Services at 413-781-7814 (http://www.wmls.org)
Coverage for Farmworkers
Required
Limitations
None. Farmworkers are not separately mentioned in statute.
Statute
Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. 152 § 1(4) (2012) ("farm laborers" are not excluded from definition of "employee" and history indicates the exclusion was removed)
Coverage for Undocumented Workers
Yes
Case Law
Brambila v. Chase-Walton Elastomers, Inc., 11 Mass. Workers' Comp. Rep. 410 (1997) (holding that being an illegal alien was not an absolute bar on receiving workers' compensation and worker who misrepresented his status to gain employment was entitled to workers' comp benefits).
Benefits Available for Undocumented Workers
There is no case law answering this question.
State Workers’ Compensation Website
Workers' Compensation Advisory Council
Online forms
http://www.mass.gov/lwd/workers-compensation/forms/
Additional Information
Medellin v. Chasman KPA, 17 Mass. Workers' Comp. Rep. 592 (2003) (declining to overrule Brambila).