South Carolina · statute · S.C. Code tit. 42, ch. 13 · 13 active provisions
As used in this chapter: (1) "Ionizing radiation" means any particulate or electromagnetic radiation capable of producing ions directly or indirectly in its passage through matter. (2) "Ionizing radiation injury" means any harmful change in the human organism, including damage to or loss of a prosthetic appliance, aris…
(a) The following shall constitute employers who shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter: (1) Every person, partnership firm, association, trust, profit or nonprofit organization, corporation or legal representatives thereof, that has one or more employees in this State and is engaged in activities which inv…
(a) If an employee of an employer subject to this chapter, while working outside the territorial limits of this State, suffers an ionizing radiation injury or disability, he, or in the event of his death, his dependents, shall be entitled to the same benefits under this chapter as if the injury or disability had occurr…
No agreement by an employee to waive his right to compensation shall be valid with regard to ionizing radiation injury or disability.
The employer, in whose employment an employee was last exposed to ionizing radiation, shall be liable for all awards of compensation should such employee suffer an ionizing radiation injury, disability or death. If, however, such ionizing radiation injury, disability or death is attributable in part to exposure to ioni…
(a) In cases involving radiation injury or disability the time for filing claims shall not begin to run until: (1) the employee sustains such injury or disability; and (2) the employee knows, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should know, of the existence of the injury or disability and its possible relationsh…
All forms of ionizing radiation injury, disability or death shall be compensable under this chapter.
(a) For any ionizing radiation injury or disability, the employee shall be entitled to all medical services, appliances and supplies which are required by the nature of his injury or disability and which will relieve pain and promote and hasten his restoration to health and employment. The employer shall furnish such s…
(a) An employee covered by this chapter who, for reasons of injury or medically determined restrictions on radiation exposure, and whose skills are not transferable to equivalent work not involving radiation exposure, shall be entitled to such vocational rehabilitation services, including retraining and job replacement…
Any settlement which waives liability for possible subsequently appearing consequences of ionizing radiation injury or disability is invalid unless approved by the Workers' Compensation Commission.
The Workers' Compensation Commission is hereby authorized to: (1) accept and administer loans, grants or other funds or gifts, conditional or otherwise, in furtherance of its function, from the federal government and other sources, public or private; and (2) require the keeping of radiation exposure records by employer…
All the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act, Title 42, shall be applicable to this chapter except where they are specifically contrary thereto.
Either employer or employee may reject the provisions of this chapter under the same terms and conditions as he may reject other provisions of this title.