A Robb Elementary teacher who helped carry her students out of broken windows while a gunman was across the hall is still fighting. This time, she is fighting to get workers’ compensation for injuries she endured that day.
KSAT Investigates– A Robb Elementary teacher who helped carry her students out of broken windows while a gunman was across the hall is still fighting.“As I heard their screams, I heard the gunshots. Then I heard nothing. And then it just clicked in my brain, like, ‘Oh, my God. They’ve been killed,” said Mercedes Salas.“I prayed. I’m like, ‘God, please protect us,’” Salas said, remembering the hushed whispers that morning.
“I was carrying like this out the window. And I ended up cutting my hands with the glass,” Salas said, describing what she did the day of the shooting.“I hit both of my knees on the cinder block,” she said. She showed KSAT Investigates some of the exercises she was taught to do. The therapy helped, but when the doctor prescribed another round of treatment, the workers’ compensation company denied the claim.“Through workers’ comp?” KSAT Investigates reporter Leigh Waldman asked.When that didn’t serve as a long-term fix for her knees, Salas’s doctor recommended injections into her knees.
Another page attributed her knee pain and swelling to arthritis, though she had never been diagnosed with it before. Salas asked the representative who helped her why her claim was denied. She said the woman compared her injuries to something that could happen if someone falls during a fire drill. Salas’s claim is just one of the 24 claims filed listing Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District with a date of injury as May 24, 2022, according to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation.
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