Article 227. Accidents in production subject to investigation and registration

The accidents, which happen to employees and other persons, including those subject to mandatory social insurance against accidents in production and occupational diseases, when performing their labor duties and work assigned by their organization or employer, which is a physical person, are subject to investigation and registration.

To said persons belong:

employees doing jobs based on employment contracts;

students at educational establishments of higher professional and secondary vocational education, students at educational establishments of secondary, primary vocational education and educational establishments of general basic education taking a practical work course in organizations;

persons sentenced to imprisonment and engaged to work by the organization's management;

other persons involved in production activities of organizations or sole proprietors.

The following cases shall be investigated and registered as accidents in production: injuries, including those caused by other persons; acute poisoning; thermal strokes; burns; frost-bites; drowning; shock - electrical, from lightning or radiation; bites form insects and reptiles; injuries caused by animals; injuries, which have been gotten as a result of explosions, accidents, destruction of buildings, structures, and installations; natural calamities and other emergencies, providing that they have caused the necessity to transfer the employee to a different job, temporary or standing loss of his ability to work or the employees' death, if they have happened:

during the working time in the premises of the organization or beyond them (including those, which occurred during the established intervals) and during the time required to bring in order the production tools and clothing prior to or after work, or when working overtime, at weekends or work-free holidays;

when heading for the workplace or coming back using the transport granted by the employer or his representative, or in one's vehicle, if said vehicle is used for production purposes by the employer's (or his representative's) instruction, or by agreement between the parties to the employment contract;

when going to the destination on a business trip or coming back;

when driving a vehicle as a replacement driver during the rest between shifts (replacement driver, refrigerator unit attendant or mechanic on a train, etc.);

when working by camp method - during the rest between shifts and staying on board of a ship in the time free of watch and onboard service;

when the employee is assigned in line with the established order to participate in elimination of the aftermaths of a disaster, accident or other emergencies of natural or technical origin;

when performing the actions, which are not part of the employee's labor duties, but carried out in favor of the employer or his representative, or aimed at prevention of an emergency or accident.

An accident in production is an insurance case, if it has happened to an employee subject to mandatory social insurance against accidents in production and occupational diseases.