As for work injuries:

Article (133):

If the worker suffers from a work injury or an occupational disease, the employer is obligated to treat him, and he bears all the necessary expenses, directly or indirectly, including hospitalization, medical examinations and tests, radiology, prosthetic devices, and transportation expenses to the places of treatment.

Article (134):

 Injury is considered a work injury as stipulated in the Social Insurance Law. Occupational diseases are considered work injuries, and the date of the first medical observation of the disease is considered the date of injury.

Article (135):

The case of relapse or any complication arising from it shall be considered as a case of injury, and what applies to the original injury shall apply to it with regard to aid and treatment.

Compensation for Injury

Article (138):

If the injury results in total permanent disability or the injury leads to the death of the injured person, the injured person or his beneficiaries shall have the right to compensation estimated at the equivalent of his wage for a period of three years with a minimum of (54,000) fifty-four thousand Saudi riyals. 

 If the injury results in partial permanent disability, the injured person shall be entitled to compensation equivalent to the proportion of that disability estimated, in accordance with the approved disability proportions index table, multiplied by the value of the total permanent disability compensation.

Article (137):

In the event of temporary incapacity to work resulting from a work injury, the injured person shall be entitled to a financial aid equivalent to his full wage for a period of sixty days, then he shall be entitled to a financial compensation equivalent to (75%) of his wage for the duration of his treatment.If the treatment period reaches one year or it is medically determined that it is not possible for him to recover and his health condition does not enable him to work, the injury is considered a total disability, and the contract is terminated and he is compensated for the injury and the employer does not have the right to recover what he paid to the injured during that year.

Article (140):

The liability of the former employers for whom the worker with the occupational disease worked shall be determined in the light of the medical report of the treating doctor, and they shall be obligated to pay the compensation stipulated in Article (138) of this Law, each in proportion to the period spent by the injured in his service, provided that the industries or professions they practice are from which result in the disease that the worker caught.

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