(1) Notice of any accident on the construction site which either—
(a) causes loss of life; or
(b) disables a building worker from working for a period of forty eight hours or more immediately following the accident, shall forthwith be sent by telephone, fax or similar other means including special messenger within twenty-four hours in case of fatal accidents and forty eight hours, in case of other accidents involving any building worker to,—
(i) the Assistant Labour Commissioner or Labourcum-Conciliation Officer, having jurisdiction in the area, in which such accident or dangerous occurrence took place, and such Assistant Labour Commissioner or Labour- Sections 38 and 62 Sections 38 and 62 Sections 39 and 62 87 cum-Conciliation Officer shall be the Authority, referred to in section 39 of the Act;
(ii) the Board with which the person involved in accident was registered as a beneficiary;
(iii) the Chief Inspector;
(iv) the Principal Employer; and
(v) the next of kin or other close relatives of the building worker involved in accident.
(2) Notice of any accident at a construction site of a building or other construction work which—
(a) causes loss of life; or
(b) disables such building worker from work for more than ten days following the accident, shall also be sent to—
(i) the officer-in-charge of the nearest police station;
(ii) the Sub Divisional Magistrate of the area; and
(iii) the District Magistrate.
(3) In the case of an accident falling under clause (b) of sub-rule (1) or clause (b) of sub-rule (2), the injured building worker shall be given first-aid and immediately thereafter be transferred to a hospital or other place for medical treatment.
(4) Where any accident causing serious injury or disablement subsequently results in death of that person, notice in writing of such death shall be communicated to the authorities as mentioned in sub-rule (1) and sub-rule (2) within seventy two hours of such death.
(5) The following classes of dangerous occurrences shall be reported to the Inspector having jurisdiction of the area, whether or not any death or disablement is caused to a building worker, in a manner prescribed in sub-rule
(1), namely :—
(a) collapse or failure of lifting appliances or hoist or conveyors of other similar equipment for handling building or construction material or breakage or failure 88 of rope, chain or loose gear, overturning of cranes used in building or other construction work, falling of objects from height;
(b) collapse or subsidence of soil, any wall, floor, gallery, roof or any other part of any structure, platform, staging, scaffolding or any means of access including form work;
(c) collapse of construction work, excavation, transmission towers, pipelines, bridges etc.;
(d) explosion of receiver or vessel used for storage, at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, of any gas or gases or any liquid or solid used as building material;
(e) fire and explosion, causing damage to any place on construction site where building workers are employed;
(f) spillage or leakage of hazardous substances and damage to their container;
(g) collapse, capsizing, toppling of excavation machinery or collision of transport equipment or machinery or other earth moving or lifting machinery; and
(h) leakage or release of harmful toxic gases at the construction site.
(6) In case of failure of a lifting appliance, loose gear, hoist or building and other construction work machinery and transport equipment at a construction site of a building or other construction work, such appliances, gear, hoist, machinery or equipment and the site of such occurrence shall, as far as practicable, be kept undisturbed until inspected by the Inspector having jurisdiction of the area.
(7) Every notice given under sub-rule (1), sub-rule (2) or sub-rule (4), shall be followed by a written report to the Inspector and to the authority under Section 39 of the Act, the Board and the Chief Inspector in Form-VIII under proper acknowledgement.