Do not trust «making it to your desk counts as work injury»: if you feel suddenly unwell, call 120 first, not the time clock
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Rushing to the office when you feel unwell will not earn extra money. «Deemed work injury» requires sudden illness during working hours and at the workstation; illness on the way before you arrive does not qualify. Rescue beyond 48 hours also does not qualify. Minutes spent chasing those conditions cost you your chance to survive.
- Cost
- No monetary cost.
- Benefit
- «Deemed work injury» requires sudden illness «during working hours and at the workstation» with death, or death within 48 hours after failed emergency treatment. Delaying care to meet those conditions trades your chance to live for compensation you may never receive
- Notes
- Both conditions must hold: working hours and the workstation. Illness on the commute before arrival does not apply. If illness starts at the workstation and you are sent home or to hospital and die within 48 hours despite treatment, the rule may still apply. What matters is where you were when illness started, not where death occurs. Short videos that say «hold on until you reach the company and you get paid» get it backward. What changes outcomes is whether you reach hospital in the first tens of minutes after onset. The 48-hour line is fixed; treatment beyond 48 hours excludes the case.
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- 工伤保险条例第十五条第一款第（一）项：「在工作时间和工作岗位，突发疾病死亡或者在48小时之内经抢救无效死亡的」视同工伤；第十四条第（六）项只把上下班途中「受到非本人主要责任的交通事故或者城市轨道交通、客运轮渡、火车事故伤害的」列为工伤，途中突发疾病不在其中. gov.cn/gongbao/content/2011/content_1778064.htm