Teacher and School Staff Injuries: A Workers Compensation Lawyer’s Perspective
The public sees classrooms, bells, and backpacks. Those who work in schools see the rest of the picture, the heavy lifts in the cafeteria, the broken step on the portable, the special education student who can lash out without warning, the custodian pushing a loaded cart down a tight hallway, the bus driver wrestling chains onto tires in a snowstorm. Schools run on people moving, lifting, calming, cleaning, and improvising. That is fertile ground for injuries, and when harm