Walk It Through: The Ladder At The Warehouse
A fall at work, ninety days to give notice, two years to file, and the weekly check.
A worker falls from a ladder at the warehouse and hurts a shoulder, but finishes the shift.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One injury at one job. Partial disability, medical treatment disputes, settlements, repetitive trauma, and whether an employer is covered are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Repetitive traumaAn injury for which notice is due within ninety days of when the employee discovered, or with reasonable diligence could have discovered, that the condition is compensable.
- Total disabilityIncapacity for work that is total, for which the employer pays weekly compensation of sixty-six and two-thirds percent of average weekly wages, for up to five hundred weeks in most cases.