Stressed by his forelady, he faints and injures himself: an occupational injury

Release date: August 1st, 2011

The employer challenges the recognition of a trauma sustained by a machine operator who knocked himself on a bin as he fell from his chair as an occupational injury. The latter was overcome by dizziness and fainted right after his forelady came yelling at him about the quality of his work. The CLP recognizes the employee’s fragile psychological condition and the fact that he is taking medication causing side effects. However, the contention that his loss of consciousness could be attributable to the medication is not proven, since the worker has been taking these drugs for a long time and has never experienced any resulting dizzy spells. It is not up to the CLP to qualify the forelady’s attitude, but as her words immediately preceded the employee’s loss of consciousness, the connection between this loss of consciousness and the job cannot be dismissed. Busrel International v. K. Haddou, 2010 QCCLP 3343 (CLP) Ms. Francine Juteau


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