Q222 - Lego

Question: 

An employee's child put a Lego in the wind breaker of an employee. While the employee has the jacket hanging on their arm the lego falls out on the stairs. A different employee, walking to the break room to take their lunch break steps on the lego and falls down the stairs breaking multiple bones. It is recordable?

Answer:

YES. The incident occurred in the work environment, are subject to the geographical presumption of recordkeeping and there are no recordkeeping exceptions that apply to this situation.

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1904.5(a) Basic requirement. You must consider an injury or illness to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing injury or illness. Work-relatedness is presumed for injuries and illnesses resulting from events or exposures occurring in the work environment, unless an exception in §1904.5(b)(2) specifically applies

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