By Industry

Each of these pages is built on a rule that applies to that work specifically — not a generic claim guide with a job title at the top.

Three examples:

8 CCR § 5120 requires hospitals to replace manual patient handling with lift equipment and lift teams — and to train you that you may refuse an unsafe lift. § 2750.5 means an unlicensed contractor's crew is frequently deemed employees of the licensed contractor or property owner who hired them. § 4656(c)(3) gives chemical burns to the eyes 240 weeks of temporary disability instead of 104 — which matters most in car washes, plating, and food processing.

Construction and trades

• Constructionand whether Privette blocks the case against the general contractor
• Landscaping and tree care
• Utility and telecom line work
• Engineered stone and silicosis

Healthcare and care work

Healthcare workers · Caregivers and domestic workers — the exclusion bites below 52 hours in 90 days — or not more than $100 earned

Logistics and transportation

• Warehouse
• Truck and delivery drivers
• Rideshare and app-based driversProp 22, and what you have instead of comp
• Port and longshore
• Airport and airline ground
• Transit operators
• Waste and recycling

Hospitality, food, and retail

Hotel housekeepers · Restaurant and food service · Grocery and retail · Food processing and packing · Casino and gaming — answer the tribal jurisdiction question first

Manufacturing and technical

• Manufacturing and aerospace
• Auto repair and body shopsisocyanate sensitization ends careers
• Garment workers
• Film and TV crew

Service and personal care

Public safety

Firefighters · Police, deputies, and correctional officers — full salary under § 4850 instead of a two-thirds check, and presumptions that shift the burden of proof to the department. Several of those presumptions follow you into retirement, which is why a cancer or cardiac diagnosis years after you separated can still be a claim. Almost nobody files them.

Agriculture

Agricultural workers

Public and office

School employees — 60 days at full salary under the Education Code · Office and remote workers — including injuries at home

Cross-cutting

Staffing agency and temp workers — § 2810.3 makes the client employer share liability. Applies across construction, warehouse, agriculture, food processing, hospitality, and manufacturing.