Work realted accident

[Crispy Critter]

Has anyone been involved in a work related accident?

My wife was helping another employee carry a box downstairs last week and luckly on the bottom step twisted her ankle. We spent all morning in the emergency room and all afternoon in the Fondo, the Pureto Rican name for workmens compensation. The Fondo is government so I watched as about sixty forms were filled out from station to station and my wife visited nurse, doctor, case worker and finally was issued crutches. They insisted she see a specialist in a town about two hours away tomorrow morning and set an appoiintment for 8:00AM so she has to get up at 5:30 AM to make it on time.

Here's the deal she works on the second floor and can't go there on crutches... The Fondo says she should take four weeks off from work to recover and if she doesn't then she loses protection from workmens compensation even if she experiences complications later... Her boss wants her back and is setting up a work office on the first floor so she can return to work as she has skills in the small company that no one else has but to return to work requires she give up her workmens compensation rights...

My wife works doing contract proposals and electrical engineering drawings on the computer so I told her to tell her boss to send her computer to our home and I would take the papers back and forth... that she could do the office work for free while drawing the Fondo and AFLAC and they could give her a bonus after the Fondo preiod elasped or determing her injury isn't more serious. She is bored to death and would like to return to work but can't without possibly getting screwed. What would you do in a case like this?

 

[tizz]

Suck it up and keep the bennefits. Even if she doesn't need them this time, giving them up now could screw things up if she ever has the need to file again.

 

[angie]

Tizz is right. She may end up with problems down the road, she should take the workman's comp time to be on the safe side.

 

[tizz]

Also be careful with the working at home, even for free it can bite ya in the ass if she isn't supposed to be working.

 

[Crispy Critter]

Suck it up and keep the bennefits. Even if she doesn't need them this time, giving them up now could screw things up if she ever has the need to file again.

That's what is messed up since she has AFLAC she will end up with more money than if she was at work... maybe her boss will hold that against her in the future. Then the doctor at the emergency room and Fondo weren't specialist so maybe she actually has a fracture and she also hit her head, back and butt when she fell. Tomorrow's doctor visit is to verify she doesn't have a fracture but still another medical problem could arise related to her back or butt... The Fondo would still cover her for future injuries but not for the basis for the current accident. To top it off she has over two weeks sick leave and plenty of vacation time...

 

[BigStache]

So all this happened last week and has an appointment tomorrow. She is not going to work so she is bored. I have to ask, why she is bored? For God sake find something to keep her mind active. I will never understand people who get bored. But should she keep away from work to protect her possible treatment, now and in the future. Does not take a genius to figure that one out. Also, doing work for free is still working as far as the government is concerned. The answer seems so obvious to me. Does her work not provide insurance?

 

[Crispy Critter]

So all this happened last week and has an appointment tomorrow. She is not going to work so she is bored. I have to ask, why she is bored? For God sake find something to keep her mind active. I will never understand people who get bored. But should she keep away from work to protect her possible treatment, now and in the future. Does not take a genius to figure that one out. Also, doing work for free is still working as far as the government is concerned. The answer seems so obvious to me. Does her work not provide insurance?

Of course I know everyone is correct to say she should not work and should take the bennies but I just think maybe the office management may hold something against her. The week before she prepared a contract bid for a quarter million dollar job and another company under bid her company but if it happened in her absense then maybe they would blame her for the loss because the bid wasn't prepared. We have two teenage kids so boredom isn't too much of an issue and I just have to take up a little more slack but she does miss work and instantly recalls the work pile up when she takes only one day off...

 

[angie]

They really have no grounds to hold it against her. It is a work related injury and they have to suck it up.

 

[tizz]

Take the leave, I just recently came off of 6 months of twice a week chiropractic vistis from a neck injury I got hiking about 8 years ago. It fixed me up, but I can tell ya, don't mess with the neck back or ass there, I lived the last 8 years with massive tension headaches as a direct result of the injury.

 

[hugo]

She probably needs to have a nasal massage.

 

[Crispy Critter]

Take the leave, I just recently came off of 6 months of twice a week chiropractic vistis from a neck injury I got hiking about 8 years ago. It fixed me up, but I can tell ya, don't mess with the neck back or ass there, I lived the last 8 years with massive tension headaches as a direct result of the injury.

I always laugh at physical theorpy but I guess it really makes a difference...

hugo funny I always recommend "the cure" you mention as the PT for everything that ails the ladies... it sure couldn't hurt and has to help a headache.

 

[angie]

Oh no sometimes PT is necessary. I ****ed up my back a little over a year ago tore/strained all the muscles that connect my arm to my back. Really uncomfortable and did several months of painkillers and muscle relaxers. Didn't fix it, isn't healing. I should be starting in a few weeks. I'll let ya know if it works.

 

[snafu]

Well doing a little union work I know that if she works or dose anything that Fondo says she can

 

[Crispy Critter]

Well doing a little union work I know that if she works or dose anything that Fondo says she can’t do she will not only lose her comp but could also get fired.
There could be more complications, so you would want those covered if or when found.
The best scenario I see is after she sees the other doctor make him/her write specific functions that she can do at work. Most doctors will work with you.
That way she doesn’t void her workman’s comp and still gets to go to work.
Good luck
Hope it's not to serious.

Thanks!

We have spent a couple days at the Fondo and it is getting a little old... Now we are gathering the forms to start the AFLAC insurance and of course we need to go back to the Fondo to get the necessary form copies to support the claim. What is screwed up is the Fondo is a nice new government building with great AC and the employee parking lot is just full of new SUV's and each employee is so nice as they process the thousands of forms required to do simple things and of course the next office is on the opposite end of the building... Then the workmens comp is only 25% of the normal income... the employeer pays enough to Fondo that if it didn't exist the employee could get full pay for the entirity of the injury... It is government at it's best...

I want a job at Fondo! AC, great pay, great job security and great job security. I would smile too just to be a form checker or form checker supervisor for such a cush job...