Stating the obvious researchers commented on the fact that if employers can have a more “accurate depiction of how often workers are getting injured can help an employer determine how much they need to worry about employees’ safety.”
One of the researchers, Les Boden a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, spoke about some reasons behind the large number of unreported job related injuries. Nowadays workers “look at it like they used to look at welfare…That it is something you shouldn’t do; it makes you a bad worker.”
In addition “decreased benefits also provide less incentive to seek workers comp, and lower-income workers may also fear losing their job, or in the case of illegal immigrants, being deported if they file a claim.”
I can’t stress enough the importance of filing a workers comp claim if a person is injured on the job. Regardless of how an owner or boss feels about their worker filing a claim the law is firmly in place to protect the worker. Whether a person is a higher paid employee or low income the company can’t legally fire you because you file a workers comp claim.
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