2025 Session Last amended: 2024 session

§ 176.873 — Application to Certain Cases

Plain-Language Summary

This section defines which institutional tuberculosis cases the related workers' compensation provisions (Laws 1949, chapter 558) do and do not cover. The provisions do not apply to employees already known to have had adult-type tuberculosis lesions, or tuberculosis germs in their secretions or excretions, before or at the time they were hired. They do apply to employees who had only an allergic reaction to tuberculin or only a healed primary infection and then contract tuberculosis on the job, and to employees disabled by an accidental skin inoculation of tuberculosis germs.

176.873 APPLICATION TO CERTAIN CASES.

Laws 1949, chapter 558, shall not be construed to apply in the case of employees known to have had tuberculosis as demonstrated by tuberculous lesions of the adult type or by demonstration of the germs of tuberculosis in such employee’s secretions or excretions previous to or at the time of employment in said institutions. Laws 1949, chapter 558, shall apply in the case of employees known to have only an allergic reaction to tuberculin or only evidence of a healed primary infection if they contract tuberculosis while employed in said institutions. Laws 1949, chapter 558, shall apply to all employees of said institutions who sustain an accidental inoculation of the germs of tuberculosis through the skin and become disabled thereby.

History:

1949 c 558 s 5; 2024 c 79 art 10 s 1; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38

History: History: 1949 c 558 s 5; 2024 c 79 art 10 s 1; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38

Practical Notes

Whether the institutional tuberculosis workers’ comp provisions cover you depends on your condition when you were hired. If you already had active adult-type tuberculosis or detectable tuberculosis germs before or at hiring, the provisions do not apply. If you only had a tuberculin allergic reaction or a healed prior infection and then caught tuberculosis at work, or you became disabled from an accidental skin inoculation, the provisions do apply.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes