What is worker’s accidental injury?
The law defines accidental injury as a bodily injury by accident.
Within
workers compensation regulations, an accidental injury that occurs in the course of your employment, unexpectedly, and without your intentional act or plan; it being something which you had not foreseen and expected is an accidental injury.
Any injury to an employee in the course of her employment due to any occurrence that can be referred to a definite time, where she is required give notice to her employer by recording the accidental injury in the accident book, regardless of whether the injury is a visible hurt from external force, or disease or infection induced by sudden and catastrophic exposure is a worker’s accidental injury.
The term injury is given a wide and liberal interpretation by the courts in order to compensate employees where injury resulted through some accidental means, was unexpected and unplanned and may have been the result of mere misfortune or miscalculation as to effect of what the employee was voluntarily doing.
Accidental injury includes an accident causing injury to the physical structure of your body, despite any natural weakness predisposing you to injury.
For the purposes of workers’ compensation regulations, a “pain” can be classified as an “injury,” as can mental ailments or nervous conditions directly resulting from physical injury.
This Guide was prepared by Balinda & Co to help you understand workers
accidental injury compensation and to help you properly plan your claim.
Balinda & Co have many years experience and have helped a lot of workers who have suffered accidental injuries to get compensation.
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