Education is one of California’s largest workforces, and its comp claims have a distinctive shape: falls and lifting injuries in a job the schedule scores as light-medium, repetitive-strain claims from decades of grading, and a psych docket driven by classroom violence. Figures computed by the engine for group 214.
The money, computed
Group 214 sits mid-schedule for the spine — above clerical, below the trades — but note the G variant on hand claims: grading, keyboards, and classroom prep make repetitive-hand impairment a real earning-capacity hit, and the schedule pays it accordingly. PE teachers are grouped with the physical occupations (390) and rate higher across the board.
The classroom-violence docket
Physical injuries from student incidents are ordinary claims. The psych layer runs through §3208.3: six months on the job, “actual events of employment” as predominant cause — except that violent events lower the causation threshold, which is exactly the assault-and-threat fact pattern education produces. The stress-claim guide walks the standards; psych rating converts the GAF to money.
The leave layer nobody explains
Certificated employees typically draw industrial-accident leave at full pay under the Education Code before the comp system’s TD takes over — districts, often self-insured, administer both streams. It changes the early cash flow, not the ending: the rating pipeline prices the injury identically, the QME still writes the WPI, and the settlement structures are the same. District pressure around returning to the classroom runs through the light-duty rules.
Estimates for informational use; not legal advice.
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