Walk It Through: The Ladder Fall
Written notice within thirty days, and a claim within two years.
A warehouse worker falls from a ladder on shift and hurts a shoulder, and a supervisor says the fall was the worker's own fault.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One worker and one employer. Benefit amounts, occupational disease, and Commission hearings are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.