QUESTION
Occupational Asthma due to workplace accident
Asked on Feb 11th, 2016 on Workers Compensation - Tennessee
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Oct,2015, my husband experienced a short, acute, SO2 gas exposure due to a workplace accident. Since that time he has been suffering from severe asthma like symptoms even though he has no previous med history of asthma. The Dr. at the minor med said it could be Adult onset asthma and his primary doesn't know what to call it. He has an appointment with a pulmonologist at the end of the month. Is there anything specifically we need to ask the specialist in order to determine if these symptoms are related to his exposure? If it can be confirmed that the exposure is responsible for his sudden onset of asthma, what legal recourse do we have against the company for the negligence which led to the exposure? thank you.
1 ANSWER
Good question. Providing a good medical history is important. It is important that the pulmonologist know that prior to the gas exposure, your husband had no prior history of asthma and asthma symptioms and that these symptoms appeared only after the exposure. Go online and do your research as to what is the cause of adult onset asthma. The pulmonologist needs to be able to rule out other asthma triggers such as smoking, allergies, etc, such that he is left with only one conclusion, that the asthma was caused by the gas exposure. Then he should be able to state with a reasonable degree of medical certainity that it was the gas exposure that caused the asthma. If this is the case, the feel free to contact me and I will be glad to represent your husband in a workers compensation claim against the company. Feel free to contact me with any additional questions.
Answered on Feb 11th, 2016 at 5:06 PM