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Where a Wyoming employee, after he had completed a shift, injured his knuckle when he struck it on a metal locker in the employee locker room, and the small cut on his finger subsequently became infected with Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus (Strep A)--more commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria--requiring hospitalization and aggressive treatment for more than a month to control the bacteria, the claim was not barred by the “illness or communicable disease” exclusion set forth in Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 27-14-102(a)(xi)(A) (LexisNexis 2019). The Court stressed that the Office of Administrative Hearings had improperly identified the employee's "injury." The injury was not the contraction of the flesh-eating bacterial disease. It was the original knuckle injury. The employee had sufficiently shown his original injury occurred in connection with his work. The bacterial was a consequential condition that developed as a result.
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).
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See In re Worker’s Comp. Claim of Vinson, 2020 WY 126, 2020 Wyo. LEXIS 146 (Sept. 28, 2020)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, §§ 10.02, 51.04.
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law
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