Walk It Through: The Ladder Fall
Report it forthwith, one year to file, and sixty days to appeal.
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, self-insured employers, and the notice section's later version are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.