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Does your center seem to have more injuries lately
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<blockquote data-quote="gman" data-source="post: 53097"><p>Be very, very careful about not reporting injuries. If you think you are doing someone a favor, you are dead wrong. Failure to report an injury suddenly becomes falsifying an injury report. While you local manager will probably believe you when you tell him you got hurt two days ago and didn't want to hurt the centers no injury streak, he has no input when the claim goes to loss prevention and they want to know why you didn't get immediate attention. They will deny your claim and you will have to get a lawyer. You will end up losing 1/3 of of the dollars you have coming to you if you end up on comp,you will have to go to at least three comp hearings meaning you lose three more days work, because even if you win, they appeal every time they lose. You will have to have additional doctor visits and probably more appointments with an attorney which mean several more lost days work, none of which gets reimburst. So figure you hurt your back and it's three weeks until you return to work. Comp is about $600 a week times three so $1800. Minus 600 for the lawyer leaving $1200, minus say... only 5 days lost work time $250 (about a nine hour day) which comes out to $1250. Do the math. Not fileing an accident report will cost you (1250 minus 1200) $50. Oh and by the way, you also lost three weeks pay. Now you are at close to $2500. Still think those pizzas they give you for three months without an injury are worth it??? </p><p> </p><p>By the way, this is what they did to me. TWICE!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gman, post: 53097"] Be very, very careful about not reporting injuries. If you think you are doing someone a favor, you are dead wrong. Failure to report an injury suddenly becomes falsifying an injury report. While you local manager will probably believe you when you tell him you got hurt two days ago and didn't want to hurt the centers no injury streak, he has no input when the claim goes to loss prevention and they want to know why you didn't get immediate attention. They will deny your claim and you will have to get a lawyer. You will end up losing 1/3 of of the dollars you have coming to you if you end up on comp,you will have to go to at least three comp hearings meaning you lose three more days work, because even if you win, they appeal every time they lose. You will have to have additional doctor visits and probably more appointments with an attorney which mean several more lost days work, none of which gets reimburst. So figure you hurt your back and it's three weeks until you return to work. Comp is about $600 a week times three so $1800. Minus 600 for the lawyer leaving $1200, minus say... only 5 days lost work time $250 (about a nine hour day) which comes out to $1250. Do the math. Not fileing an accident report will cost you (1250 minus 1200) $50. Oh and by the way, you also lost three weeks pay. Now you are at close to $2500. Still think those pizzas they give you for three months without an injury are worth it??? By the way, this is what they did to me. TWICE! [/QUOTE]
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