My employer can't accommodate my permanent weight restrictions

If the part of your work that exceeds the permanent limitations is an essential part of your job, you need to utilize an attorney in the Workers' Comp arena to obtain Vocational Rehabilitation (retraining) AND Permanent Partial Disability benefits from your employer.  If the tasks are NOT "essential requirements" of YOUR job, then the employer has a duty to accommodate you and NOT to discriminate against you or it may be violating the ADA. You should be eligible for unemployment as long as you are able to accept employment offered you "within doctors restrictions", if you are still getting Temporary Total Disability (TTD) payments on a weekly basis that is the issue with unemployment because you can't get both.   If vocational rehabilitation isn't an option, and if the task (you are unable to do) is an essential requirement of your job, you may want to apply for Social Security Disability benefits before you have been off work so long you lose your insured status (i.e. have sufficient quarters of employment within 5 years) to be eligible for SSD. You may need 2 or 3 different layers to cover all bases, but luckily most of lawyers in these areas work on a contingent basis so you don't have to pay by the hour.     TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, Consult with a lawyer or lawyers (Workers' Comp / Disability Discrimination / Social Secuirty) ASAP!!!!!