Enter, or use to select, the ID number of the employee for whom you want to record an injury or illness. Employee IDs are validated against the Employee table. This is a required field. The employee's name displays in the unlabeled field to the right.

Costpoint performs an edit to make sure that the employee's gender and date of birth were entered on the Manage Employee Information screen. If this information is not entered, you must enter the missing information before you can continue.

If you selected the System option in the Accident Claims Numbering group box on the Configure Personnel Settings screen, this field is disabled, and the program automatically assigns an internal case number when you enter and save a new record. You must also use either or to search for previously saved records. If you selected the Manual option in the Accident Claims Numbering group box, this field is enabled and you can enter an accident claim number before saving the record. You can also enter, or use , , or to search for already saved records. Regardless of which option you select, Costpoint requires unique accident claim numbers for each fiscal year.