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What Is Workers' Compensation?

What Is Workers' Compensation?
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   high interest, readability grades 3 to 4
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   3.32

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    benefits, deadline, insurance, supervisor, filed, injury, medical, fell, emergency, slipped, possible, water, exactly, puddle, report, accident
     content words:    Compensation Board

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What Is Workers' Compensation?
By Patti Hutchison 		  
1     Ann slipped in a puddle of water that someone had left on the floor at work. She fell and broke her arm. She went right to the emergency room. The doctor took care of Ann's arm and said she would be as good as new in about six weeks.
 
2     "Six weeks!" Ann exclaimed. "I can't be off work for six weeks. How will I pay my bills?"
 
3     The doctor looked at Ann's chart. "It says here that you were hurt at work," he said.
 
4     "Yes, that's true," Ann told him.

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