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If workers bring home-cooked food into the workplace lunchroom and somebody gets sick, can they claim workers’ compensation?

Question: If workers bring home-cooked food into the workplace lunchroom and somebody gets sick, can they claim workers’ compensation? Sometimes food can be left on tables for the day without being refrigerated. The company does not have any policy/signage in place to ban shared homemade food, so would we be liable because we have not objected to it?

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