Work Injury

How an occupational injury happened — the record a workers' compensation claim is built on. Five tabs, each for a different kind of mechanism or consequence: Lifting, Falling, Other injuries, After accident and Job description.

Lifting

Field	Records
Date and time of the accident
Weight of objects
Position of object lifted	Where it was relative to the patient
Patient's position while lifting	Their posture
Type of pain immediately after injury

Falling

Field	Records
Patient fell from where?	Height or position
What body part was impacted first?
Patient landed on?	The surface
Other body areas affected
Describe additional details

Other injuries

Field	Records
Immediately after injury, patient felt
Other injuries
Where did you develop pain?
Indicate areas of lacerations

After accident

Field	Records
How much time after the accident?	When symptoms appeared
Additional symptoms after accident
Where did you go immediately after?
Patient lost consciousness after injury
Patient received emergency care at scene
Other comments and additional details

Delayed onset needs to be documented as delayed

Symptoms that appear hours or days later are common and entirely legitimate — but a gap between incident and complaint is the first thing challenged. Recording when symptoms started, explicitly, is what makes that gap explicable rather than suspicious.

Job description

Field	Records
Regular activities	What the job normally involves
Hand/wrist movements
Weight normally lifted at work	The routine load

The two weights together tell the story

The weight of the object that caused the injury matters most when read against what the patient normally lifts. Twenty-five kilos is unremarkable for someone who lifts it all day and significant for someone who never does — and that comparison is what a claims examiner is looking for. That is why the routine load sits on its own tab: it describes the job, not the incident.

Getting the billing right

The injury record does not route the claim. On the patient's policy, tick Employment — that is what makes it a workers' compensation claim.

New York has its own form sequence

Workers' compensation in New York runs on the C4 forms, with the first claim on the C4.0 and every subsequent one on the C4.2 — and claims sent on the wrong one are denied on the technicality. That is set up on the policy, not here.