Injured at Work - What To Do?

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is part of an Ontario-wide system. The system is designed to help protect workers from injury or illness in the workplace, and to help them if they do suffer an injury. Most Ontario employers must have workplace insurance coverage by law. Employers pay the premiums for their workers and are not allowed to deduct them from workers’ wages. If injured at work, your WSIB claim will usually involve assistance from an adjudicator, nurse case manager and client care representative/account manager (source - WSIB web site).

Under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, you may be entitled to receive the following benefits: (a) loss of earings benefits - depending on the situation either full loss of earnings benefits or partial loss of earnings benefits; (b) health care benefits; (c) special health care benefits for very serious injuries; (d) non economic loss benefits in cases of severe impairment caused by a workplace injury; (e) loss of retirement income benefits; (f) survival benefits and (g) assistance with re-introduction into the workplace such as retraining.

In some cases, a person injured at work may have an entitlement to elect out of receiving WSIB benefits and instead commence court action against the employer and/or third party responsible for the injury. To learn more about your rights in cases of workplace injuries, call us at Plant Quinn Thiele LLP - 613-563-1131 (Marc N. Quinn). Ottawa Injury Law Firm.