Jobsite Knife Injury Led to a Career in Comp

Editor's note: Three WorkCompCentral reporters devoted at least one week each in the past several months to tell the story behind the story about the dysfunction of California's workers' compensation system. This is the fifth of six stories in our special report, which was distributed in print form at the Third Annual Comp Laude Awards Gala in Los Angeles last Saturday. One day in 1976, a playground director for Daly City named William Zachry spotted a fight breaking out between two high school-aged girls as a crowd looked on. Zachry, who was working the job to put himself through...