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Specific Traumatic Incident

Back injuries became a large problem because it was extremely difficult to demonstrate that a back injury occurred during an accident and not in the course of regular work. In 1983, the legislature amended the Act to allow back injury claims more easily. It states that when an injury arises out of a specific traumatic incident of work assigned, injury by accident will be construed to include disabling physical injury to the back coming out of the traumatic incident. For back pain, if the injury can be pinpointed to a specific event and time rather than a gradual onset of injury, then the claim is much more likely to be compensable.