Shattered is a documentary series exposing how a system once created to protect injured workers has been reshaped by policy, profit logic, and now automation — turning recovery into conflict and care into a calculation.

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It follows the people caught inside it: workers, families, doctors, employers, whistleblowers — and the growing number of lives derailed not by the injury itself, but by the system meant to respond to it.

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Behind the scenes, governments and insurers quietly shifted decision-making from human assessment to computer-driven triage — using algorithms to decide whose pain is believed, whose treatment is delayed, and whose life is written off as “too expensive.”

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The result is a national crisis hidden in plain sight:
a system that harms the people it was built to heal — and a public who won’t know until it happens to them.

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This is not a story about broken people.
It is a story about a system that was redesigned — and the human cost of pretending it still works.

The next generation will inherit this system — or change it.

 

Future lawyers, clinicians, policymakers, social workers, engineers, and data designers will decide whether harm is repeated or repaired.

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