Louisiana
Pesticide Reporting Requirements
Region
Louisiana
Required to Report
Yes
What to Report
Any Pesticide-Related Exposure
State Office
Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, Section of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology
Timeframe to Report Injury or Exposure
End of the work-week
SENSOR partnership with NIOSH
Pesticide Surveillance Program (technical support from NIOSH): Pesticide Surveillance Program | La Dept. of Health
Workers' Compensation
Coverage for Farmworkers
Required (with limitations)
Limitations
Employers that are private unincorporated farms do not have to provide an employee coverage if the employee's annual net earnings is $1,000 or less OR the total net earnings of all the employees do not exceed $2,500.
Statute
La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 23:1035(B)(1) (2011)
Coverage for Undocumented Workers
Yes
Case Law
Artiga v. M.A. Patout & Son, 672 So.2d 1138 (La. Ct. App. 1996) (holding that La. Workers' Compensation Act does not exclude illegal aliens from securing workers' compensation benefits when justified); See also Rodriguez v. Integrity Contracting, 38 So.3d 511 (La. App. 2010) (holding undocumented workers are not statutorily excluded from receiving workers' compensation benefits).
Benefits Available for Undocumented Workers
There is no case law answering this question
State Workers’ Compensation Website
Online forms
Additional Information
For employees whose farm employer is exempt from providing workers' compensation, if a person [e.g., farm contractor] is in the business of furnishing those employees to the private unincorporated farm, that person must provide workers' comp. La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 23:1035(B)(1) (2011).