I knew a guy who cut himself shaving, showed up for work and he called for an ambulance because it wouldn't stop bleeding.

He wasn't a hemophiliac or anything, he was just an idiot.

Leary balked, as we suspect most people would, and suspended Morehouse for two days on grounds of filing a false report.

Morehouse appealed his suspension to the state Civil Service Commission, which last week ruled against Leary and ordered the department to reimburse Morehouse for lost pay and benefits.

"It is the practice in Weymouth to complete and submit a workplace injury report for any injury, regardless of whether it appears to be trivial," commission Chairman Christopher Bowman wrote in the decision. "Although Chief Leary may have been skeptical about (Morehouse's) motive for submitting the injury report, he has not shown that it was a false report."

Well, they're right... It's not the Chief's job to determine the severity of the injury, and he never showed it was false. That's for the retirement board to determine. He should have done his job, signed the form (perhaps adding a note saying that he thought it was a trivial injury) and passed it on to the people who have the power to reject it.

karlandtanya: definitely something going on here we're not being told!

No, it's pretty obvious...
1) Underling gets told by boss to shave his moustache.
2) Underling gets crafty, uses rusty razor and claims on-the-job injury.
3) Boss gets upset about dick-waving contest, doesn't act like an adult, and refuses to pass injury claim on to the people who could legitimately reject it.

Basically, the Underling skirted the rules, but the Boss broke them, which is why he's in the wrong.

Where I work every injury no matter how slight has to be reported and you have to go to the on-site clinic.
If the injury happens outside of the on-site clinics hours (as approximately 30 of my 40 weekly work hours are) we are supposed to go to the nearby hospital.

End result:

We are required to call an ambulance if we get a paper cut. Really - that's what the official rules say - without the example of course.

I like to keep some facial hair. I also have to do "asbestos" work (in areas OSHA doesn't actually qualify as Asbestos areas mostly - and a few that do). I don't know I'm going to do Asbestos work until I'm actually at work. I wind up shaving at work a lot. I can't seem to actually get rid of a beard and mustache using only a razor - since my clippers are at home - without getting cut.

Yep. I could pull this and use their own rules to cover it. I have a feeling they would actually re-write the rules if we were to actually follow them.