Injured at Work? - Why You Need to narrative it Immediately in Virginia

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An injured employee suffers a scratch at work. Why should he report this as an injury? After all won't his fellow workers laugh at him and won't management ignore him? Won't he be thought about a complainer?

This brings to mind the story of an "injured claimant" I represented him in a Virginia Workers recompense hearing. The only defense raised by the insurance enterprise was that the claimant had not reported his injury.

Injured Thumb

The day before Thanksgiving the claimant was in the shop. The claimant scratched his right thumb on a sharp piece of metal. The claimant knew about his duty to report every injury. However, he chose not to a report his scratched thumb. He belief the injury was insignificant.

How ot Injured at Work? - Why You Need to narrative it Immediately in Virginia

A few days later the claimant's hand was throbbing and swelling. It was very painful. He decided to go to the urgency Room. The Er doctor took one look at the claimant's thumb and put the claimant in the hospital. He stayed there for 10 days while he was administered antibiotics to bring down the infection. His healing bills were over ,000.

He reported this to his boss and the claim was turned over to the insurance company. They denied the claim. They said his injury was not immediately reported to a supervisor at work. He came to see me.

I represented the claimant in a Virginia Workers recompense proceeding. We were able to persuade the Deputy Commissioner that the claimant had a guess for not reporting the injury right away. He had regarded the injury as "trivial." Virginia Workers recompense law requires injuries to be reported in writing to your boss within 30 days of the date of the injury. Most employers like the claimant's boss want an injury to be reported "immediately" to management. Fortunately, in the claimant's case, the Deputy Commissioner believed claimant. He believed the injury did occur at work. He believed the claimant had not reported it right away because he unmistakably belief the injury was trivial.

The claimant dodged the bullet in this case. He was lucky the Deputy Commissioner believed him. However, he would not have had any problems or delays if he had just reported his injury to management right away.

The morale of this claimant's story is report your injury right away (no matter how important the injury appears to be).

How to Injured at Work? - Why You Need to narrative it Immediately in Virginia

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