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‘Beyond failure’: WA teen loses legs at school-based work program.
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To be fair, they may have signed an NDA as part of their workers comp agreement. The prosthetics he has are pretty rare to see on people, as most private and socialized insurances won't cover microprocessing knee units.
The vast majority of the time when you see a high end powered knee unit on a guy that young, it's because they had a workers comp case, or they got them at the Walter Reed veterans hospital.
The knee looks like a Genium x3, which alone can bill for around 100k. His prosthetic feet bill for around 10k a piece, and then there's probably another 50k for custom sockets.
Even if he did harbor a grudge against the employer, in his position it would be difficult to rock the boat and potentially be on the hook for his acquired medical cost.
It's unfortunate, but I've definitely had a patient who was successfully sued for losing their leg at work. Word to the wise, don't get hurt on the job in Kansas.
I kinda doubt they would be doing an interview like this if they signed a NDA. But maybe I am wrong.
Depends, but most of the time with NDA they don't prohibit you from talking about how an accident happened. They just don't allow you to assign liability/responsibility to the company.
The victim and the family of the victim kinda fell over themselves to make it clear that they don't blame the company, despite the fact that they were so negligent.