e Exhibit J — WorkSafeBC formal denial letter, Mar 23, 2026

Claims
Maing adds: OC Rex 4200 Stn Teyana, Vanwouete BC VER TH

phone G01. 291 B98 | LEST 9OL. SET? f Pax 04253, 9977

aiarch 23, 2026

MARK HOLAND i Your WorkSefeBC Gaim number
UNIT 311 218 AGNES ST : : a

NEW WESTIINSTER BC V3L 033 Your Customer Cans ramber

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Dear MARK HOLAND:

Thank you-for discussing ydar claim with us. This letter will explain my decision regarding your
application.

Background
You have filed an application for coifipensatian for an ear condition that you report was caused by a
server fan noise behind your workstation.

The Issue
The issiie 1 must decide is whether your work dutias or the nature of your employment caused you
to develop an occupational disease.

Applying Law and Policy

The law and policy that applies to your claim is found mm Sections 134 and 136 of the Workers
Compensation Act {the “Act’} aad policy tems C4-25.00, €4-25.16, and C4-25,20 of WorkSafeiC’s,
Rehabilitation Services aad Claims Manual ("RSC"), VolumeSI.

Section 134 of the Workers Compensation Act provides that a personal injury must arise out of and
in the course of 3 worker's employment for compensation benefits t-bé paid,-This means your
injury must have happened at work and been caused hy work for you to.de eligible far workers’
compensation benefits. ‘

Section 136 of the Act exptains that where a worker suffers fram an occupational disease and the
disease is due te the nature of their employraent, compensation is payable. If the worke? isnot
disabled from earning full wages, heath care benefits may stif be payable.

Policy item C4-25.00 expiains that there are three basic requirements for compensation under
section 136 of the Act:
1. The worker must have a disease designated or recognized by the Board as an “occupational
disease”;
The worker's occupational disease must be or have bene “duc to the nature of any
employment” in which the worker was employed; and
3. The eccupational disease must “disable the worker from earning full wages at the work” at
which the worker was employed; however, a worker need not be disabled by the occupatianal
disease in order to be entitled to health cane benefits.

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