BURNS, REPORTING OF

For the purpose of reporting under this section, burn injury' means any of the following:

• second- or third- degree burns;
• any burns to the upper respiratory tract or laryngeal edema due to the inhalation of super-heated air;
• any burn injury or wound that may result in death. ORC § 2921.22 (E)

"No physician, nurse, or limited practitioner who, outside a hospital, sanitarium, or other medical facility, attends or treats a person who has sustained a burn injury inflicted by an explosion or other incendiary device, or that shows evidence of having been inflicted in a violent, malicious, or criminal manner, shall fail to report the burn injury immediately to the local arson bureau...or to local law enforcement authorities." ORC § 2921.22 (E)

"No manager, superintendent, or other person in charge of a hospital, sanitarium, or other medical facility in which a person is attended or treated for any burn injury inflicted by an explosion or other incendiary device, or that shows evidence of having been inflicted in a violent, malicious, or criminal manner, shall fail to report the burn injury immediately..." ORC § 2921.22 (E)

A written report must be filed with the office of the state fire marshal within three working days of treatment of the burn.

Anyone participating in the making of the report is immune from any civil or criminal liability that otherwise might be incurred as a result of such actions. The physician/-patient privilege is not a ground for excluding evidence regarding a person's burn injury or the cause of the burn injury in any judicial proceeding resulting from the submission of a report. 
ORC § 2921.22 (E)

Negligent failure to report is a minor misdemeanor. Knowing failure to report is a second- degree misdemeanor. ORC § 2921.22 (J)

BURNS, REPORTING OF