Section 96 Impact of Safety Issues on Missouri Workers? Compensation Laws

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

The Missouri Workers’ Compensation Law, Chapter 287, RSMo, provides for a reduced amount of compensation for an employee injured as a result of the employee’s failure to follow safety rules. Specifically, the Law states that:

Where the injury is caused by the failure of the employee to use safety devices where provided by the employer, or from the employee’s failure to obey any reasonable rule adopted by the employer for the safety of employees, the compensation and death benefit provided for herein...