If you are hurt on the job whether it is due to an acute traumatic injury like cutting yourself on a saw cumulative trauma injury like carpal tunnel syndrome or some other job related injury there are several basic things you should do.
I got hurt at work.
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So protect yourself and take the time to fill out an odi.
The insurance company will use anything to show work did not cause your injury.
I got hurt at work.
Most common ways people are hurt at work.
Whether it s at the end of a long day or after a particularly difficult ordeal with a customer work often brings us to the point of exhaustion.
That s because workers compensation is not based on fault.
Keep reading for a look at 5 of the most common ways people are hurt at work according to osha.
If you do not do any of the things on the list below you may lose your rights under iowa s workers.
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As described your injury is work related and covered under worker s compensation and your employer could be subject to additional damages for retaliation for you making a claim.
You might piss off your supervisor with some paperwork but at least you will be covered.
I came to a city mountain 12 hours from home to work an under the table job and hurt my leg while doing so.
If you got hurt on the job it probably doesn t matter if you were responsible or your employer or another worker was responsible.
One of the most important aspects of workers compensation is that you have 45 days to let your employer know that you were injured as a result of a work related accident.
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Btw it is required to report an injury at work within 45 days.
I got hurt at work now what do i do or what do i do first.
It takes 5 10 minutes if you never did one.
They wouldn t call it work if it wasn t tiring.
One question we get frequently is.
I asked john the person that asked me to travel here for work to take me to the hospital.
They yelled at me and suspended me.
However if a third party such as another driver or a manufacturer of a faulty piece of equipment was involved then that party may share responsibility for the accident.
Then i got acused by my district manager and loss prevention of a few things that i knew i could prove that were not truth.
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Later i started to get the feeling i was being treated differently.
Nothing serious just a cut but it then got infected and it causes me to limp.
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