Results: Have you ever had a work injury and not report it to Workers Compensation? If not yourself, then do you know of someone who had a work injury and they did not report it to Workers Compensation?
Published on 07/14/2019
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Have you ever had a work injury and not report it to Workers Compensation? If not yourself, then do you know of someone who had a work injury and they did not report it to Workers Compensation? Yes, myself
18%
398 votes
No I have not had a work injury but I know someone who has had a work injury and they did not report it
13%
287 votes
Yes, both myself and someone I know had work injuries and we did not report them
7%
153 votes
No I have not and I don't know anyone who has
64%
1421 votes
- Nope
- No
- Did not feel it was anything serious.
- NA
- N/A
- Na
- I have had work injuries and I did report it but you didn't give me that option. I picked an answer that made no sense in my case.
- tttttttt
- not work related injury that happened at work
- no
- I actually didn't have time and had to keep on working at the time. I wish now I would have as I still have problems with that issue.
- Their employer asked them not to put the claim through Worker's Compensation in order to prevent their insurance from increasing.
- I was too stupid!
- I had a work injury, my boss hated me, said i was faking, so I reported him. With an xray showing the damage he was fired, haha!
- No comment.
- Pressure from my employer.
- Wanted to continue to work.
- It occurred during Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking
- Many times you get hurt and don't realize it's going to be as long lasting or your getting older and don't realize at first how bad it hurts. You just keep thinking it's going to stop.
- Didnt think it was a big deal at first
- It was my fault
- would lose my job, don't kid yourself
- Worked at a cookie factory in Texas. A forklift driver had a pallet of boxes stacked over 8 feet high fall in him and the manager not wanting the accident to go on HIS record told him to get up and forget what happened. At same factory a woman operating a mechanical cookie press lost a hand when she was required to clean the machine. Cleaning is supposed to be done by 2 people but the factory wanted to save money. The woman lost both her hand and her job as she was fired.
- No
- Do not have that compensation
- Not very serious injury.
- no
- N/A
- My son was afraid to report it, he thought they would fire him, so he suffered with the injury for like years needlessly.
- Too much trouble since the company took good care of me .
- N/A
- I smoke marijuana and it was in my system at the time, therefore if I tested positive I would have lost my job
- The company would have held it against him.
- Rryyttfff
- My husband got horribly burned at work, he is a cook and someone shoved him while he was carrying a very hot tray. He got a huge burn on his arm and he couldn't go to the hospital or report it because he has smoked marijuana the week before and he gets automatically drug tested if he reports an injury with automatic termination and he also doesn't have health insurance. We bought all kinds of burn ointment and bandages and eventually it healed but he has a bad scar.
- to much paper work
- Because me and a few other employees were screwing around at work. Didnt want to get anyone in trouble
- na
- in the early days your life was made miserable or you were terminated
- It was not serious.
- I just didn't have it in me to go through the process, nor do I trust the process. Still living with an injury years later, so I probably should've just went through with it.
- I was self employed and had to finish the job myself just took an extra week to finish
- Too busy, too poor not to work
- no
- Because I would've lost my hours at work I didn't go to the doctor when it happened.I was badly burned on my arms but thought it would be okay.
- Minor injeries
- to much hassel
- NA
- Hno
- I own my own company.
- To much BS to go through!!!!!!!
- Company was a joke
- I don't do doctors
- It is more of a hassle
- I did not think it was serious at the time
- Nil
- none
- A friend's own fault. He didn't wear the required Steel toed shoes. Dropped something on his foot.
- What was the point, nothing would have happened!!
- 1. I was a volunteer, so not really "workplace's fault"; would make company's insurance rates increase, which would be better use for someone who worked and needed. 2. Another time debatable if work injury or related to a past injury. Again, not fair for company's rates to increase, since my insurance covered.
- Wanted to keep workinh
- my employer would not recognize my work injury and confirm it...told to go home and put ice on it
- No
- It was minor and the paperwork involved became overwhelming so I gave up trying to report it.
- I was stupid. It cost me many thousands of dollars by not reporting it.
- i was told not to
- I had a work injury and reported it
- I did not think it wa as bad as it was.
- No
- N/A
- no
- Have never had one
- WAS AT TEMP SERVICE THEY SENT ME DEDUCTED TIME FROM MY PAY BOOOO
- All reported. Need to do because of insurance reasons
- We knew we would lose our jobs.
- And I have had work injury in the past and I chose not to elaborate with my fellow co-workers because I didn't want them to be going back telling his supervisor what was going on with me I just figured my mind to overpower to hurt because at the end of the day success and be as must be accomplished there was
- bbbbbbbbbbb
- I fell hurt my knee...wish I would of now!
- Employer asked me not too I did not know better then
- I am so mad at workmans comp.
- As a safety office, I always tell my workers to report even the most minor injury to prevent problems down the road.
- would cut into my state service time & would affect my pension. I took medical leave because I HAD ENOUGH TO DO THAT.
- didn't want to bother
- it seemed minor at the time
- I never had a work injury but I know of an individual that wished they did report it at the time. They ended up having surgery and lost their job and now are on a disability. You should report when you get hurt right away.
- I had a work injury was management immediately told me to the file for Workers Comp. Where is that option?
- Did not seem like a big deal at the time. In truth it took two years for the result to become a problem
- Workers Comp is a joke.
- didn't know what it was
- I tripped over my feet on a flat surface.
- It did not require a medic
- I understand that a lot of people don't report it because there boss says there insurance goes up so they just pay them a little bit more till they get better.
- No comment
- They had only worked a short time and did not want to put their job in jeopardy
- scared of causing trouble, so they did not report the injury
- It was not that bad...
- wasn't bad, if i wasn't at work and it happened i wouldn't have gone to the doctor, so i don't think it's worth going to the doctor just because i happened to be at work
- If it was my own stupidity then it's my fault. I've only reported one injury because I stabbed myself with scissors and barely missed my eye. My bosses made me report it and one of them took me to the hospital.
- I was injured on the job and I reported it.
- I didn't feel that it was serious enough. Employers aren't going to care about your pain anyway but will consider you a pain if you report any problems for which they could be held liable.
- minor, did not warrant the paperwork or hassle
- minor injury, my own fault. no lost time
- Because of the company i worked for. Couldn't afford to loose my job.
- Hard to make a nut on L and l.
- Thought it would go away on its own.
- Didn't want to be at the clinic all day
- Not serious enough to mention.
- n/a
- Depending on how big/ small the injury, I believe the employer will think less of you/trouble.
- couldn't be bothered
- i did report it
- I have no idea about that
- afraid for my job,in retrospect job was not worth it.
- no
- No, I have not had a work injury, but I know someone who has and they did report it
- In my employer's company, Workman's Comp applications were a sure way to get fired somewhere down the road. I needed my job.
- no
- I was afraid I'd lose my job
- Nil
- Just figured it was minor and did not realize how serious until the next day.
- Too much of a hassle.
- I've known of home injury reported as work injury. This one lady made a fortune when her deadbeat husband injured her knee then reported falling on the job. Never had to work a day in her life again just cashing in on Workers Comp and insurance.
- it was minor and would not interfer with my working
- I realy liked the place I worked it was a Family own Restrunt and they treated me very good
- Would get fired
- Na
- just plain stupidity!
- I had a work injury before, where one of the children at the school where I was working ran into my leg on the playground. I let the school know what happened and l filled out a incident report.
- 6 stitches back to work .
- It was to time consuming.
- I kept getting hurt buy the same thing over and over, no one seemed to care, Complained many times to management happened again I went to Workers Compensation. On my return to work the problem was gone.
- Didnt want to loose my job
- I worked for the place I did go on to file and was told to retire within 3 days and never work for the Government again! Pretty harsh!
- No
- I had an injury and I reported it and they told me that the company i worked for didn't have workers comp. turned out the company was so small they had the option of not paying into it and they didn't. I quit.
- NA
- I didn't not report any injury
- Wasn’t bad enough for me to miss work
- No
- It doesn't apply, in my case.
- No
- no
- No
- No
- No
- Fear of retaliation
- No comment.
- N/A
- I always thought this happened in reverse.
- Retaliation
- none
- I mean thankfully I've never had to work accident I have a few friends who have and it's pretty traumatic
- not being realistic
- Not worth the hassle, my company provided me modified duties through out for injury so I did not lose anytime,
- Working in the medical field I have known ones to file and they were literally blackballed but, only if they turned it into a lawsuit. I filed for SDI and got better over the year. Honestly I was afraid to lose my position as a civil servant.
- It seemed a minor injury and I didn’t want to get my supervisor fired ( it was her fault ).
- I don't know exactly how or when I got the injury, it didn't start bothering me until the next day. I couldn't prove that it actually happened on the job, so I never reported it.
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- I am not at liberty to disclose the reaasons
- I wouldn't have been able to prove that it happened at work.
- Wasn't that bad.
- Because work managers treat you as a target if you file workmans comp. Like you did something wrong. They treat you harsher than they previously did prior to injury
- no
- None
- I have not nor do I know anyone who has.
- Only had work injury once and reported it to HR.
- Other workers who reported injuries were fired so I kept my mouth shut
- Thankfully have not encountered that type of issue
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