High enough levels that workers compensation insurance would not cover these mussels in a workplace injury. The mussel's personal insurance would need to cover the loss instead.
Even the mussel's personal insurance would not generally cover situations resulting from deliberate (in the insurers eyes) drug ingestion. Unless the mussel could prove it was contamination of his environment.
It puts the mussels in a terrible place. There's no active labor unions for molluscs, and the lack of a temperature controlled brine pool in many civic courts prevents them from testifying directly.
This could also possibly fall under the dominion of the little understood maritime law.
Agreed... the good old days were better when the big mussels were only into steroids.
Absolutely true. The lack of a union means that if molluscs with on-the-job injuries are asked about drug use, they should just clam up.
Depends on the country though. Those mussels would be covered for accidental injury in New Zealand, regardless of accident mechanism or drug test result. Unless they had a preexisting condition or course, then they have a real problem.
Mollusks are placed at even greater risk by their own deviant behaviors, as described in this BBC documentary: