Stressed Out Prison Guard Gets Workers’ Comp Benefits

Breaking up a knife fight between inmates left a prison guard so shook up that he began seeing a psychologist for post-traumatic stress. Workers’ comp denied his claim but the Appeals Tribunal said his psychological injury—gradual onset stress—was covered because it was the result of a work “accident,” citing the guard’s exposure to riots, fights, fires and other disturbing events, of which the knife fight was the last straw [20126628 (Re), [2012] CanLII 56052 (NB WHSCC), Sept. 21, 2012].

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