Was a great place, till you get hurt then you are tossed to the curb even if you were there for them for 16 years, - Field Technician EPC, Inc. Employee Review

I have waited quite a long time with this festering in my head but I feel that I should pass my review on. I was with EPC for 16, almost 17 years, I have worked at the HQ as well as Houston and coast to coast for them. I learned everything that I know now because of EPC. I am not here to tear on EPC for what they allowed for me, as well as the opportunities I was given… What I am reviewing is the way my last year and a half there as well as what led up to my exit with the company. I know the ones that read this will know who posted this and good. I hope you learn about how the company treated someone after 16 years and drove that person out despite the gossip train that lies in upper management.. 12/10/2018 I was injured on the job, Torn tendon to the right arm. That injury was due to repetitive work, injury over time, not a snap and break kinda injury. When EPC was notified about it I was then forced to go to a “doc in a box” clinic where I received inadequate care even asking for different care. It took over 9 months of staring at the wall in the WH and poor care. Loosing money from not able to travel as per my job. After a call with the key upper management (that I thought cared about someone that was there for them) I was told by the #1 person “come back to MO, we have a place, we will do whatever we need to do to get this fixed and past us”. That was our agreement with VP’s, boss, President, and HR on that call. I was then moved back to STL right after all work comp claims were denied and I was left in the air, injured, and on my own hook for their injury. No one after that call remembers that phone call magically. As soon as I moved back to St Louis I went to my own doctor due to what I was told by the head of HR, “your injury not ours, your problem not ours”. That was when I started to see that they were not going to be on my side. Once work-comp cleared EPC from my injury it was the start of hostile tensions between upper management and myself. The orthopedic surgeon knew from the start that it was a clear cut work-comp and due to the time that I was not treated accordingly, that scar tissue grew and there was never going to be full recovery. After surgery to clean out what he could, there was a SMALL chance that my arm would get better. Well it didn't. I was then on my own to pay all the medical copays (approx. $10k and some still out there) that they told me they would cover. I currently have a “fixed-ish” tendon where there will always be pain. Day after day it is an issue, and will never be fixed. 32 years old with a permanent injury, then was pushed off from the company, the company I thought "cared", then thrown to the curb. I was mostly kept from HR and upper management due to the friction between myself and their lies. It was requested that I got my medical bills to the head of the company, as per his request he got them directly from me that day. Nothing happened from there, and once I had one of the final meetings with the head of HR, both her and him both lied to my face denying that they were going to do anything and never got the documents, and I was told “you can leave now”. From there I walked out the next day. My recommendation to future people, once you are hurt, you are no longer an asset, you are a liability. They will make your life bad till you quit. That's their typical motive, that's what they always have done, I have seen it from ALOT of past employees thru my 16 years there, just never thought id see it. Just don't get hurt on their time, it doesn't matter how long you were there. Sadly my career there ended after 16 years, not that I wanted it too, it was due from them forcing that on me.