Reference no: EM13690472

Protection of workers injured on the job is a good issue to consider as we close out the employment law unit. The question is this: You have an employee, a carpenter, using a radial arm saw (the kind of electric saw that moves back and forth over the material being cut). The employee is cutting wood to use in building a cabinet but gets careless and cuts off the index finger on his left hand at the knuckle. The saw is old, there are no warning labels, and the safety guard has been removed long ago; however, the employee has been using that particular radial arm saw for several years. Under Workers' Compensation statutes (use Alabama's since you can find it on the web) and assuming that your employee is making $25/hour, how much is an index finger worth? Should this be the only remedy for the employee so injured on the job?