If injury is caused by the failure of the employer to comply with any statute, rule, or order of the department of safety and professional services, compensation and death benefits provided in this chapter shall be increased by 15 percent but the total increase may not exceed $15,000. Failure of an employer reasonably to enforce compliance by employees with any statute, rule, or order of the department of safety and professional services constitutes failure by the employer to comply with that statute, rule, or order.
Wis. Stat. § 102.57
Violations of safety provisions, penalty
Known as the Worker’s Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 102–102 (84 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Goodyear Atomic Corp. v. Miller (1988)
Most recently applied in Sohn Manufacturing Inc. v. Labor & Industry Review Commission (August 2013)
1981 c. 92; 1983 a. 98; 2001 a. 37; 2015 a. 55
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.