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My job requires that I walk for 7.5 hrs per day While at work I felt severe knee pain which sent me to the ER I have a torn ACL that requires surgery. Can I file for workers compensation? I work at a bingo hall. I was selling sheets on the floor to customers when this happened.
Asked on November 13, 2011 under Employment Labor Law, Oklahoma
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
Worker's compensation is available when you suffer an injury due to your job. The issue isn't whether you felt or noticed the injury at work--it's whether work caused it. If you are an employee (not an independent contractor) and your injury was caused by the 7.5 hours/day of walking you do at work, you may be eligibole for worker's compensation; if your injury was, on the other hand, caused by jogging, an old football injury, the result of a fall at home, etc., then even if you felt pain at work, you probably can't collect worker's compensation.
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