reimbursement for work-related injuries in catering industry: 1. Work-related injuries should be reported to social insurance agencies within 24 hours. 2. The employing unit shall, within 31 days from the date of accident injury or the date of diagnosis and identification as occupational disease, apply to the Labor Department for work-related injury identification. If the employing unit fails to submit the application for work-related injury identification within the prescribed time limit, the relevant expenses such as work-related injury treatment that meets the requirements of the industrial injury insurance regulations during this period shall be borne by the employing unit.

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article 4 of the measures for the determination of work-related injuries? If an employee has an accident injury or is diagnosed and identified as an occupational disease in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases, the unit to which he belongs shall, within 31 days from the date of the accident injury or the date of diagnosis and identification as an occupational disease, apply to the social insurance administrative department in the overall planning area for the identification of work-related injuries. Under special circumstances, with the consent of the administrative department of social insurance, the application time limit may be appropriately extended. In accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an application for ascertainment of a work-related injury shall be submitted to the provincial social insurance administrative department, and in accordance with the principle of territoriality, it shall be submitted to the municipal social insurance administrative department where the employer is located.