paraphrase, YES. In accordance with OSHA 1904.5(a)"You must consider an injury or illness to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to theresulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing injury or illness."Although theemployee did sustain the injury (pre-existing) before his employment with the company thedriving factor is that his injury was reintroduced during workplace procedures. Additionally, the injury had become significantly aggravated which is why it is a new work-related case .Also, IAW OSHA 1904.6(a)(1)"The employee has not previously experienced a recorded injury or illness of the same type that affects the same part of the body." The pre-existing injury was not recorded/documented. No data existed, new work-related cas