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This case concerns a claim for psychiatric injury sustained by a groundskeeper/janitor who unknowingly ingested marijuana-laced cheesecake provided by a coworker. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board affirmed the administrative law judge's finding that the applicant sustained a compensable industrial injury to his psyche. The Board reasoned that the act of being drugged at work, which led to immediate psychiatric disability, constituted a specific industrial injury, irrespective of subsequent events. The opinion clarifies that the initial injury occurred when the applicant became psychiatrically disabled after consuming the substance, satisfying the elements of a compensable injury.
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This case concerns a claim for psychiatric injury sustained by a groundskeeper/janitor who unknowingly ingested marijuana-laced cheesecake provided by a coworker. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board affirmed the administrative law judge's finding that the applicant sustained a compensable industrial injury to his psyche. The Board reasoned that the act of being drugged at work, which led to immediate psychiatric disability, constituted a specific industrial injury, irrespective of subsequent events. The opinion clarifies that the initial injury occurred when the applicant became psychiatrically disabled after consuming the substance, satisfying the elements of a compensable injury.
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