Employee who tries to fake an injury like a ‘bad stunt double’ for workers’ comp gets fired, lives on as the break room's favorite meme: ‘[He fell]… on camera… in 4K’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 13, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

This employee did not plan his scheme out very well after trying to fake an injury to get workers' comp. If you don't know what that is, it is when you get an injury while on the job and then the company your work for has to pay for your time off and medical bills. The thing is, however, big companies are not dumb and they are 100% going to look into how this injury was actually acquired. If it was an actual work-induced incident, then fine. But if it's just an employee being dumb or doing something they were told not to, then yeah, you're out of luck. This guy was even MORE out of luck because he was caught faking his accident on camera! It was very obvious that he stopped to think about how to "fall," threw himself dramatically, and then refused any sort of medical help, just asked for the paperwork. This guy not only did NOT get workers' comp he also got fired. But wait, that's not all! His video also became the office meme. 

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  • "The guy who tried to fake an injury for workers’ comp… on camera… in 4K"

    We have a warehouse camera system for safety and security reasons. One of my coworkers (let's call him Steve) apparently thought this was the perfect setting.
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  • For his Oscar-worthy performance. During a shift, he "tripped" over a clearly visible pallet, except the cameras caught him looking directly at it, pausing,
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  • and then dramatically throwing himself forward like a bad stunt double. He lay there groaning until a manager came over. When the manager offered to call an ambulance,
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  • Steve refused, saying he'd "just fill out the paperwork." Two hours later, HR called him in with the footage. My favorite part was watching Steve watch himself on screen
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  • and still try to argue: "That's... not how it happened." He didn't get workers' comp. He did get fired. And now his "fall" is the breakroom's favorite meme.
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  • 9Score And10 Pant... Similar thing happened at my family's business. An employee didn't realize there were cameras in the barn and simply laid down and placed some trays of dirt on top of himself to make it look like he fell
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  • carrying them. Then he sat up to rearrange his position, he was in the process of smoothing out the dirt when my brother rolled up on him and asked what the h I he was doing. Fired as soon as the instant replay was checked.
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  • sweetnessfnerk Have a nice trip. See you next, never!!!
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  • Particular-Skirt963 Do people not pay attention to where the cameras are? And if he intended to get caught on camera why not
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  • bail out when he realized his performance was bad? I swear to god if I didnt have morals I could get so rich
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  • Nobody is safe from memes. That is the wonder and whimsy of millennials and gen z in the workplace. If you are going to do something ridiculous in front of your coworkers, whether you meant it to be funny or not, it will be memeified. 

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