Report occupational injury or illness

The injury must be reported within one year of the occupational accident.

For occupational illness, the time limit is one year from finding out the cause of the illness.

If the occupational injury or illness is reported to NAV after more than one year, NAV may still approve it if it is clearly documented that it is an occupational injury or illness. Even so, we cannot normally grant exemptions from the time limit if the injury has healed without permanent damage at the time NAV receives notice of the injury.

Employers, the Armed Forces, principals and others in similar positions have a duty to report the injury on your behalf in connection with occupational accidents and harmful exposures in the workplace. They also have a duty to report fata accidents in the workplace.

The employer’s representative must sign and attest the information provided in the report.

You can also send in a report yourself

• if you are a freelancer or self-employed without any superiors
• when a company or educational institution has closed down, has been wound up or cannot report the injury to NAV for other reasons
• as a survivor, if the relevant employer or institution does not report the occupational accident or occupational illness.

Report occupational injury or illness

Read more about the duty to report (lovdata.no) (in Norwegian).