Ala. Code § 37-2-91

Every person, corporation, company or association operating a railroad shall give notice to the commission of every accident happening on any portion of its line in this state, which is attended with death or maiming or other serious injury to the person of anyone, within five days thereafter, giving facts and circumstances of such accident, which any one or more of the commissioners may investigate, and the result of such injury, with such details as they may deem necessary, shall be entered upon the record of the proceedings of the commission.