Wear and tear injuries are often overlooked by employees, dismissed as nothing significant, even though these injuries, developed over time, can merit workers’ compensation aid as occupational claims. When people discuss workers’ compensation, they imagine critical and dramatic injuries. They imagine someone at a factory, their arms crushed under gears. They imagine drivers T-boned against a building front.
However, many people dismiss the prevalence of injuries that develop over time. Exposure to some chemical or repetitious physical actions can, over time, result in serious and painful injuries that are just as debilitating as a more dramatic and immediate injury. You are entitled to occupational claims for wear and tear injuries.
