Question

do other countries have programs similar to worker's compensation in states such as West Virginia?

http://osha.europa.eu/OSHA

I found this when looking up OSHA on Google yesterday. You might get some information from some of the links in here.

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http://www.google.com/search?as_q=workers+compensation+other+countries&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images

And here's a whole collection of websites that should help.

You need to learn how to use Google's Advanced search: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
I entered <b>workers compensation other countries</b> in the first of the four boxes ("all the words"), and got these results.

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