Workplace Back Injury Workers Comp: What Benefits You Deserve

## Back Injuries: The Most Costly Workplace Injury Category

Back injuries account for nearly one in five workplace injuries and represent the single largest category of workers compensation costs in America. Whether your back injury resulted from lifting heavy materials, a slip and fall, repetitive strain, or a sudden traumatic accident, you have the right to full medical treatment and wage replacement through workers comp.

Back injuries at work cost employers and insurers an estimated $7 billion annually, reflecting how seriously debilitating these injuries can be for working Americans.

Workers Comp Benefits for Workplace Back Injuries

Your workers comp coverage for a back injury includes all necessary diagnostic tests such as MRIs, CT scans, and X-rays, as well as specialist consultations with orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons. Physical therapy, pain management, epidural injections, and surgery are all compensable when medically indicated.

• Document every physical limitation your back injury causes at work and at home
• Do not let an employer or insurer pressure you to return to work before you are medically cleared
• Request a functional capacity evaluation to accurately measure your work restrictions
• Pursue permanent disability benefits if your back injury causes lasting functional limitations

Herniated discs, fractured vertebrae, and nerve damage can end or permanently alter careers. If your back injury prevents you from returning to your previous job or any comparable employment, you may qualify for vocational rehabilitation and permanent total disability benefits. These high-value claims require aggressive legal representation to maximize the final recovery.