It includes medical, surgical, chiropractic or hospital treatment, in addition to doctors, nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, tests, x rays and MRIs, custodial care, ambulance transportation, medicines, crutches, x-ray or nearly anything else that may be reasonably required after your injury or disability to cure and relieve the effects of the injury. Even in the event that your injury manifests itself as being an occupational disease resulting from long term exposure to pollutants or repetitive tasks, the employer is still required to provide this medical care. If you have an on the job injury, remember that the Missouri Workers’ Compensation statute requires that your employer provide you with medical treatment. Once an injury report is filed the Division of Workers’ Compensation assigns an injury number to the report regardless of whether a claim has been filed. So, that might have occurred without your knowledge. Note that your employer is required by law to fill out and file an injury report. And follow up with the Division of Workers compensation to check to see your employer reported the injury and you learn your “injury number.” When reporting the injury, you should always ask that a written report be made of the injury report or provide your employer with a written notice, including your name and the time, place and nature of the injury, including all body parts affected by the injury. The important thing is to make sure that the employer is put on notice of the claim – if you do not, the claim will be forever barred, and you will have no recovery for your on the job injury! Remember also that you can have a family member report your injury if you are not able to. One thing to remember is that in the special case of an occupational disease – such as mesothelioma – you must report the diagnosis along with your belief that the diagnosis was caused by your on the job exposure – within 30 days of the diagnosis. It must be made to either your employer or its insurance company, or one of their representatives. This is usually made to your supervisor or manager. A sample injury report is attached as Appendix 1. No matter how badly you are injured, the first thing that you must do is file an injury report. If the negligence of the employer allowed the third party to create a situation that led to your injury, then that injury was both work related and caused by civilly compensable negligence. If that is the case, then you may be entitled to a recovery under both a worker’s compensation and civil claim.
Further, sometimes injuries that have occurred on the job were caused by the negligence of another employee of the company, or by a third party not employed by the company.
What about hearing loss, carpal tunnel syndrome, and degenerative back disease of a claim that occurs over time? The work has to be the “prevailing cause” of the injury. This can be a more complex question than it might appear at first.
That the work incident is what caused your injury and not something else. That you were hurt at work (not going to or coming from work) and that it was a sudden occurrence that happened at a specific place on at date and at a time (this is important information you need to make a claim and fill out a claim for compensations). "Workers' Compensation in Missouri: Succeeding in Your Injury Claim" What To Do If You're Injured on the Job The Iowa State Bar Association, and its members, and employees hereby disclaim any responsibility or liability claimed to have arisen from reliance upon the information contained in the ISBA FIND-A-LAWYER directory.Chapter Three what to do if you're injured on the job The information on these pages has been supplied by the persons and firms listed, and The Iowa State Bar Association has not reviewed, investigated, or evaluated the accuracy or completeness of the information, or qualifications or competency of those listed. Nothing in this FIND-A-LAWYER directory should be relied upon as legal advice. The Iowa State Bar Association does not recommend or endorse the services of those listed, nor does the omission of others from this directory imply a negative assessment, or any evaluation or recommendation whatsoever. All lawyers listed in FIND-A-LAWYER are members of The Iowa State Bar Association. ISBA FIND-A-LAWYER service is a directory provided by The Iowa State Bar Association to assist its members and the public in locating an attorney.
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