$0 is what Idaho law expects you to pay upfront to open a workers' compensation claim, and your employer is not supposed to punish you for reporting a work injury or seeking benefits.

What should have happened: After a crash on the job - for example, a deer collision in a company pickup or a wreck involving a grain truck or farm equipment on a Canyon County road - the injury should have been reported to your employer right away. In Idaho, injured workers should give notice promptly, and the outside limit is usually 60 days. If you needed emergency care, that comes first, whether that was in Nampa or transfer to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise for trauma care.

Your employer and its insurance company should then open the workers' comp claim. If another driver or company also caused the crash, that does not cancel workers' comp. It just means there may be a second claim against that driver, farming operation, trucking company, or vehicle insurer.

What to do now: If you have not formally reported it, do it today in writing: date, time, location, who was involved, and that it happened during work. Keep copies of everything. If your hours were cut, your route changed, or you were suddenly pushed out after reporting the crash, document each change with dates, texts, schedules, and names.

Also get the crash report if law enforcement responded, such as Nampa Police, the Canyon County Sheriff's Office, or Idaho State Police.

What comes next: The workers' comp insurer may pay medical care and wage benefits first. Then the insurers for the other at-fault parties may start blaming each other. That is common in Idaho multi-vehicle rural crashes, especially during harvest season.

Those fights happen between insurers. They do not erase your claim.

If workers' comp pays benefits and another insurer later pays a settlement, there may be a subrogation claim, meaning reimbursement gets sorted out from the recovery. Your job is to protect the timeline, the medical records, and proof of any retaliation.