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In Iowa, there are a couple of different types of claims. You could have a “traumatic injury”
which is the steel beam fell and hit me in the shoulder—that’s a traumatic injury.
Or I fell off of the load dock—traumatic injury. The other kind of injury you can have
is a cumulative injury. Cumulative injuries in Iowa are when you gradually develop an
injury from performing your work. For example, the one that most people are aware of is carpal
tunnel. You are repetitively using a keyboard or doing something repetitive as a production
worker, and you develop carpal tunnel. It wasn’t something “boom,” it happen,
it developed over time—those injures are accepted in Iowa, those injuries entitle you
to compensation. Other types of injuries: I have dozens if not hundreds of clients who
have had back injuries from repetitively doing a task, repetitively bending over, repetitively
lifting. Over time, they wear out their back and have chronic back pain. It may start out
as something intermittent and it then become more severe and more constant. That is a cumulative
type injury. Those injuries are compensable and you are entitled to benefits for those
injuries. And for that reason, it’s important to talk to a law firm that has experience
in Iowa Workers' Compensation law to make sure that you are protected, and to make sure
you assert a claim within the appropriate time parameters to protect yourself. Call
my office, we are more than happy to go over your facts, and determine what can be done
to help you.