There are numerous ways for California professionals to break bones while working. They might slip and fall. Even a same-level fall can be enough to cause fractures. Accidental contact with machinery, car crashes while working and a host of other traumatic incidents can leave workers with fractures that require immediate medical care and weeks of immobilization.
Although broken bones often lead to a full recovery, they can generate substantial financial challenges before an injured worker fully heals and regains their functional capabilities. Workers’ compensation can provide critical assistance for those coping with a fracture that they incurred while on the clock.
Benefits can reduce financial strain
Workers with broken bones may require thousands of dollars in medical care. Treatment options range from setting the bone, applying a cast and providing physical therapy for recovery after the bone heals to surgery in more extreme cases. Workers’ compensation can pay for all necessary treatment expenses for an on-the-job fracture.
Professionals may also require disability benefits. Broken bones generally require a minimum of eight weeks to knit, if not substantially longer.
Temporary partial disability benefits can augment the reduced pay of workers restricted to light-duty work functions that limit their pay. Temporary total disability benefits can replace a portion of the worker’s lost wages if they cannot work at all until they recover.
While professionals may be eligible for paid or unpaid leave and might have health insurance to cover treatment costs, filing a workers’ compensation claim can more effectively diminish the setbacks caused by a work injury. Discussing a work injury and available workers’ compensation benefits with a lawyer can help injured professionals file a claim for the coverage they deserve.
