if you suffer on on-the-job injury

whether it’s physically at your work

site or you’re in a car or on a work an

exterior work site or even if you’re

working from home and are injured at

home now in this kind of post-covered

world you need to report it to your

employer reporting that injury to your

employer starts the entire process and

unknown to the employee there are time

frames within which if you fail to

report the injury to your employer you

may be deprived of some or all of the

available workers compensation benefits

so the most important advice to a person

who has been injured on the job is you

must report that to your employer they

will then do what’s called a first

report of injury to the workers

compensation system and then they may

Define and tell you okay you need to go

be seen at this doctor’s office and

there may be other choices you’re not

always stuck at that one doctor’s office

but uh your employer in some

circumstances can control where you

start to get your treatment so that’s

the most important thing I would say is

you got to report the injury and then

you need to follow through and you also

need to understand that

um the workers compensation system has a

lot of workers compensation doctors and

you need to understand that you do have

rights with respect to that treatment

and in many cases if you’re injured on

the job you got to really fight to be

heard in the doctor’s office and you got

to make sure that you’re not having

doctors who are aligned with the workers

compensation system telling you you’re

better if you’re not better so you have

to be a real good self-advocate and your

lawyers can help you with that too