isitrecordable? - Two Medical Opinions
An employee is stung on their neck by an unknown insect and the on-site nurse observes that the employee is not having a serious reaction and provides ice to reduce minor local swelling. The employee leaves work and decides to see their family doctor. The family doctor provides prescription antibiotics to the employee and recommends taking 2 days off until healed. The employee reports the doctor visit, medical treatment and recommendation for time off work to the employer but the employer asks the employee to visit a different doctor for a second opinion. The same day, the employee visits the second doctor. The second doctor states that they think the antibiotics were unnecessary and clears the employee for work without a need for days away from work. Is it recordable?
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Comments (4)
43% say Recordable
57% say Not Recordable
7 votes
Good question with no direct answer. What star is the employee working in? California labor law says the employee gets to choose who they see. Other states allow the company to choose. So if this event happened in California it is recordable. If it happened in Indiana it would not be recordable.
Recordable since a prescription has been issued. Had there been no prescription issued and the employee didn’t actually take the 2 days off, you could choose the most authoritative treatment at that point, potentially making it not a recordable.
This one is pretty split - 50/50- atm