cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3089104
NEWPORT NEWS — The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.
The motion was filed last week by attorneys representing the School Board and argues that Zwerner, who was shot in her classroom at Richneck Elementary in January by a 6-year-old student, is only entitled to file a worker’s compensation claim because the injury she sustained from the shooting is a “workplace injury,” and that the shooting was a hazard of the job.
Are. They. Wrong.
Yes. If it’s a workplace injury, OSHA has the authority to come in and dictate mitigation measures.
Clearly this isn’t true.
There are mitigation measures! Unfortunately, OSHA can only dictate mitigation measures inside the workplace.
Yes. Being shot is not part of the job description.
Stabbed with a pencil? Sure. Hit with a chair a kid threw? Okay. Harmed with an actual weapon? That they searched the kid for and didn’t find? Nope, sorry. I can’t accept that work hazard.
I’m pretty sure mass shootings are actually addressed in the handbook.
Trying to downplay a mass shooting? IDK Einstein, you tell me.
They’re downplaying it because this is normal.
Getting mowed down by a mass shooter is a workplace hazard because this is a shithole country where mass shootings happen daily.