Repetitive Trauma Injuries

Repetitive Trauma Injuries

Compensation for Repetitive Trauma Injuries

Traumatic injuries on the job are not limited to visible, sudden ones such as amputation, blindness by burning, or spinal cord injuries suffered in bus or train wrecks. While the debilitating aspects of such injuries are obvious, many workers required to perform repetitive physical tasks also become seriously disabled – though their disabilities are less visible to others.

Beware of Statutes of Limitation

As soon as you suspect you may be suffering from a work-related repetitive or occupational disease or condition, contact the Connecticut attorneys at Cousins, Desrosiers & Morizio, P.C. Do not let statutes of limitation prevent you from making a successful claim. Explore the possibility that you may qualify for repetitive and occupational disease compensation through your employer’s Workers’ Comp insurer.

Repetitive Stress Injuries and Other Occupational Diseases

Workers often gradually develop relatively invisible ailments resulting from workplace dangers, including the following:

• carpal tunnel syndrome, often suffered by factory and office workers

• back injury or other types of lifting injury due to repetitive strain or lifting (by health care workers, for example)

• hearing disorders, or total hearing loss of workers repeatedly exposed to loud industrial machinery

• arthritis and repetitive strain injuries (RSI) due to excessive stress over time on joints

• allergies resulting from exposure to toxic materials such as asbestos, and breathing in of toxins by chemical plant workers

• infectious diseases such as hepatitis B acquired in hospitals

• heart conditions, hypertension, produced by stressful conditions in jobs such as firefighting, law enforcement, and truck driving

• lung ailments (such as Mesothelioma) due to chemical exposure (such as asbestos, lead, mercury, cadmium, manganese); asthma; COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease); and other chronic conditions and occupational diseases

Do not miss the compensation that is rightfully yours due to failure to act in time. The Connecticut Workers’ Compensation law firm of Cousins, Desrosiers & Morizio, P.C., does not shrink from the challenges of benefit claims such as these. For a free consultation on any repetitive or occupational disease or condition caused by conditions on the job, contact our repetitive & occupational disease compensation lawyers.