Suicide Not Workplace Death

Suicide is not a workplace death even if prompted by symptoms caused by an on-the-job accident, the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench has ruled. The judgment came in the case of a Canadian National Railway Co. signalman driven to hang himself after suffering with tinnitus: “This is not uncommon. It happens. It’s horrible”.

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