Defense Base Act Workers’ Compensation Claims 

For years, civilian workers have been hired by American companies to work on overseas projects, worldwide, on behalf of the U.S. government or the military. In Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries there are currently thousands of civilian employees currently at work in the reconstruction of war torn areas as well as assisting the American military.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, many companies including Halliburton, Bechtel, DynCorp, Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), have been contracted by the U. S. Government, which means that their workers are often placed in harm's way. 

In other areas of the world, workers are hired to build United States embassies and other U. S. government buildings in foreign countries from England to the Soviet Union and Asia.  US military forces are in service around the world in Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, Bosnia Herzegovina, Panama, Turkey, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Guam and many other countries.  This means that whenever and wherever civilian contractors are contracted to aid in the mission of the United States government, whether there is an associated military presence or not, their employees risk the possibility of on the job injuries.  The Defense Base Act provides the same basic rights and benefits to these workers as are provided under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act discussed above.

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