{"id":5158,"date":"2012-03-06T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duncanlawonline.com\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2012-03-06T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T09:00:57","slug":"recover-workers-comp-heart-attack-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duncanlawonline.com\/staging\/8350\/recover-workers-comp-heart-attack-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Recover Workers\u2019 Comp Benefits if I Had a Heart Attack at Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EKG<\/a>Like many areas in the law, it depends.\u00a0 If the heart attack occurred during your normal work activities, usually the heart attack injury is not compensable under North Carolina workers’ compensation<\/a> laws.\u00a0 For the injury to be compensable, the worker must show the heart attack was caused by some unusual or unexpected event and was in the course and scope of employment.<\/p>\n

A good example would be an administrative assistant, who had a \u201cdesk job,\u201d was on the first floor of a fifteen-story building.\u00a0 Due to a power outage, the elevators were temporarily not working.\u00a0 The worker\u2019s supervisor told the worker to quickly go to the twelfth floor, via the stairs, to pick up some important documents. As the worker was going up the stairs she began to breath hard and over exerted herself.\u00a0 As the worker reached the tenth floor, she began to have chest pain and suffered a heart attack.\u00a0 This is a compensable act because this was not the normal routine of the administrative assistant to run up twelve flights of stairs.\u00a0 Her normal job was to have a sedimentary job at her desk. She suffered a heart attack due to this \u201cunusual event\u201d of her running up ten flights of stairs. This injury should be covered under the workers compensation laws.<\/p>\n

What if the employer knew the administrative assistant had a preexisting heart condition?\u00a0 This would be irrelevant. The heart attack would still be compensable because the employer \u201ctakes the employee as they find them.\u201d<\/p>\n

What if a convenience store employee had a heart attack as an armed robber came into the store with a shotgun and pointed the shotgun at the clerk?\u00a0 This would probably be compensable injury because it is not the \u201cnormal duties\u201d of a convenience store clerk to have a shotgun pointed at them.<\/p>\n

What if a store clerk was checking out a customer and the clerk had a heart attack?\u00a0 Would this be compensable under the workers compensation laws?\u00a0 Probably not, because the clerk was doing his \u201cnormal and customary duties \u201d when he suffered the heart attack.\u00a0 Nothing out of the ordinary caused the clerk to have the heart attack.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is, there must be some act or accident outside of the normal course of employment that caused the heart attack. There must be a causal connection between this act and the resulting heart attack. If you are looking for a Charlotte workers’ compensation attorney<\/a> or Greensboro workers’ compensation lawyer<\/a> be sure to contact us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many areas in the law, it depends.\u00a0 If the heart attack occurred during your normal work activities, usually the heart attack injury is not compensable under North Carolina workers’ compensation laws.\u00a0 For the injury to be compensable, the worker must show the heart attack was caused by some unusual or unexpected event and was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-compensation"],"yoast_head":"\nHeart Attack at Work & Workers' Comp | Duncan Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can you get workers' comp for a heart attack at work in NC? Yes \u2014 if an unusual event caused it. 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