Maya2001
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From: Woodstock ONT,CANADA
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The professions are not worse , the high injury workplaces know how to play the numbers game better and how to avoid reporting. I have been both sides of the fence
long hours on the keyboard if incorrect keyboard height will result in carpal, slouching at the desk chair along with insufficient exercise results in back problems which is the most common types of injuries , because the worker goes to their own doctor or hospital to treat it becomes reported
Factory jobs mostly low paying companies do not like to report the injuries that occur , inorder to save comps claims bullying of workers and finding alternate reasons to fire them should they report injuries occurs so less injuries get reported workers will hider their injuries and because many factory workers are main family income earners they cannot afford time off on comp at a lower income so they instead suffer through their injuries, if they do claim an injury alternate work is often provided and in factory health care is dispensed which makes it easier to avoid reporting injuries much of the work will result in cumalitve injuries such as working breathing or absorbing toxic chemicals and dusts so the injury may not before apparent until senior workers or after retirement, and by then unless the doctors asks what you do for a living may never link the injury as being work related
there all sorts of industries that have onsite medical staff inorder to treat the workers themselves inorder to avoid filing lost time injuries, even concussions, partial amputation of fingers, falls that result in broken bones , cuts requiring stitches will be treated by employer owned medical staff and will get hidden from being reported as work place lost time injuries.
One girl where I work had her hair get caught in some moving equipment which resulted in a large area of her scalp being torn away, emergency hospital staff had to take skin grafts from her leg to patch and put balloons under other areas of her scalp inorder to stretch the skin inorder to do later reconstructive surgery so that she will have hair covering all her scalp again. It was a very serious injury that did get reported ......but it ended up being a 3 day lost time injury ....she was forced to return to work or lose her job even though she is far from recovered from her injuries. I ended up getting a thumb caught and squashed in one piece of equipment near the end of my shift , I spent the day eating tylenols 3 and drinking trying to ease the pain I phoned into work to say I could not make it in as I was unable to sleep and too impaired to drive and my thumb was swollen twice its size, they sent a taxi to pick me and take me home burned a hole in my thumb and squeezed fluid out of my thumb to release some of the pressur and sat me at a desk sorting parts just in order not to have a lost time injury , it did not matter to them that I was intoxicated and legally should not be at work, if I would have refused they would have fired me claiming they had suitable work for me and made every effort to help me be able to do the work and I refused. I could fought them and go to the hospital instead to prove I was unfit for work but it I did that, I would be under the microscope for even the slightest infringement, I would be kept under pressure and nitpicked at, with hopes I would lose my temper, and given the crappier jobs all in an attempt to firs me and it could go on like for a few years, having done it once before I learned the error of my ways better to endure a few day of BS than 5 years of it
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