If you go to work 'impaired', i.e., with your senses or judgment clouded by alcohol or drugs, and then you are injured on the job, they will presume that the injury occurred because of the impairment, and so it was your own dam fault, and they will refuse to pay....
Accidents happen, but each employee has some responsibility to do what they can to avoid accidents and report hazardous conditions to management. Employers have the responsibility to provide a 'reasonably' safe workplace and give the employees safety training.
In ma petite's case, it sounds like rigid bureaucrapic thinking, coupled with the first rule of any insurance company -- always try to find some way to deny the claim.... |
