This is the list, in the regulation's own words where the words matter, with HSE's notes on the edges. It covers injuries. Dangerous occurrences, which are reportable whether or not anyone is hurt, have their own list. If you are standing over an incident now and want the questions in order, the decision guide walks them.
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013, SI 2013/1471, which came into force on 1 October 2013 and replaced the 1995 regulations. It places a duty on the responsible person, usually the employer or the person in control of the premises, to report certain work-related deaths, injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences to the relevant enforcing authority, which for most workplaces is HSE, and to keep records. Reports are made at hse.gov.uk/riddor.
The death of any person, worker or not, as a result of a work-related accident, except suicide. This includes a death that occurs up to one year after a reportable injury. Notify without delay and send the written report within 10 days.
RIDDOR 2013, regulation 6.
Regulation 4(1) lists the injuries to a person at work that must be reported however long the person is off. Quoted from the regulation:
| # | Specified injury (regulation 4(1)) | HSE's note |
|---|---|---|
| (a) | "any bone fracture diagnosed by a registered medical practitioner, other than to a finger, thumb or toe" | Doctor-diagnosed or doctor-judged likely; a self-diagnosed "suspected fracture" does not count |
| (b) | "amputation of an arm, hand, finger, thumb, leg, foot or toe" | Traumatic and resulting surgical amputations both count |
| (c) | "any injury diagnosed by a registered medical practitioner as being likely to cause permanent blinding or reduction in sight in one or both eyes" | Reportable once a doctor diagnoses the effect as likely permanent |
| (d) | "any crush injury to the head or torso causing damage to the brain or internal organs in the chest or abdomen" | |
| (e) | "any burn injury (including scalding) which (i) covers more than 10% of the whole body's total surface area; or (ii) causes significant damage to the eyes, respiratory system or other vital organs" | Smoke inhalation damage is excluded |
| (f) | "any degree of scalping requiring hospital treatment" | Skin separated from the head; simple lacerations do not count |
| (g) | "loss of consciousness caused by head injury or asphyxia" | Reportable however brief; fainting from feeling unwell does not count |
| (h) | "any other injury arising from working in an enclosed space which (i) leads to hypothermia or heat-induced illness; or (ii) requires resuscitation or admittance to hospital for more than 24 hours" |
Sources: RIDDOR 2013, regulation 4(1) (the list) and Schedule 1 (the reporting procedure and deadline), as made; HSE, Specified injuries to workers, updated 20 January 2026.
Notify without delay and send the written report within 10 days of the accident (the deadline is set by Schedule 1, the reporting procedure, not by regulation 4(1) itself). HSE's guidance adds that where the extent of an injury is unclear, no precautionary report is needed: report once the specified injury is confirmed.
Fractures dominate this list in practice. In HSE's 2024/25 figures, fractures other than to fingers, thumbs or toes were around 90% of all reported specified injuries.
Regulation 4(2): where a person at work "is incapacitated for routine work for more than seven consecutive days (excluding the day of the accident)" because of a work-related injury, the responsible person must report it "as soon as practicable and in any event within 15 days of the accident."
Three things people get wrong:
Not reportable, but it must be recorded. Regulation 12 requires a record of any injury that incapacitates a worker for more than three consecutive days (again excluding the day of the accident), kept for at least three years. An accident book entry under the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979 is sufficient.
Regulation 5: an injury to a person who is not at work, a visitor, customer or member of the public, is reportable if it arises from a work-related accident and the person "is taken from the site of the accident to a hospital for treatment in respect of that injury." Death is reportable in any case.
HSE's notes: being taken to hospital for examination or precautionary checks is not enough; there must be treatment. Injuries arising from medical treatment itself are excluded. Notify without delay and report within 10 days.
They are not reportable to HSE, which is where most of a site's experience sits. A worker who slips, is bruised and is back on normal duties in two days; a finger fracture; a near miss where nobody is touched. None of these is reportable. All of them should be recorded, because RIDDOR is a reporting threshold, not a definition of what matters, and the investigation of the one that is reportable almost always starts with the ones that were not.
RIDDOR is a reporting threshold, not a definition of what matters.
| Event | Notify | Written report |
|---|---|---|
| Death | without delay | within 10 days |
| Specified injury to a worker | without delay | within 10 days |
| Non-worker taken to hospital for treatment | without delay | within 10 days |
| Dangerous occurrence | without delay | within 10 days |
| Over-seven-day incapacitation | — | within 15 days of the accident |
| Over-three-day incapacitation | — | record only, keep 3 years |
| Occupational disease (listed) | — | without delay on written diagnosis |
RIDDOR 2013, regulations 4–9 and 12, Schedule 1. "Without delay" may be by telephone for fatal and specified injuries; the written report is made online at hse.gov.uk/riddor.
Deaths; the eight specified injuries to workers (fractures other than fingers, thumbs and toes; amputations; permanent loss or reduction of sight; crush injuries to head or torso damaging the brain or internal organs; serious burns; scalping requiring hospital treatment; loss of consciousness from head injury or asphyxia; enclosed-space injuries leading to hypothermia, heat illness, resuscitation or more than 24 hours in hospital); injuries keeping a worker off normal duties for more than seven days; and injuries to non-workers taken from the scene to hospital for treatment.
Not as a specified injury: fractures to fingers, thumbs and toes are excluded. It becomes reportable only if the worker is unable to do their normal duties for more than seven consecutive days, in which case it is reported as an over-seven-day injury within 15 days.
Only if it results in more than seven consecutive days' incapacitation for routine work, when it is reportable as an over-seven-day injury. Otherwise record it if it causes more than three days' incapacitation.
Not by itself, for a worker. The test for workers is the specified-injury list or the seven-day rule. The "taken to hospital for treatment" test applies to non-workers.
Reportable injuries must be reported to HSE within the deadlines above. Recordable injuries (over-three-day incapacitation) must be recorded by the employer and kept for three years but not reported. Everything else is neither, though good practice is to record near misses and minor injuries as well.
For an employee, their employer. For a self-employed person or any other person injured on premises, the person in control of the premises where the accident happened. So an injury to a visiting driver in your yard is your report.
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Published 27 October 2026 · Last updated 27 October 2026