Research
and Statistics
Part of Body - 2000
Claims
The most frequent body part injured was
the lower back (n=12,584) which also represented a significant overall
portion of indemnity payments for lost time ($50M). Multiple body parts
was also relatively frequent (n=4,495), with a relatively high cost of
lost time per claim (around $7.2K per claim). The upper arm was reported
as the injured body part for 1,720 claims with an average lost time cost
of around $6.7K per claim.
PART OF BODY |
2000
CLAIMS |
LOST WAGE
COMPENSATION |
ABDOMEN
(INCLUDING GROIN) |
1,546 |
$2,609,285 |
ANKLE
|
2,023 |
$5,373,102 |
ARTIFICIAL
APPLIANCE |
2 |
$871 |
BODY
SYSTEMS AND MULTIPLE BODY SYSTEMS |
167 |
$3,350,669 |
BRAIN
|
62 |
$375,043 |
BUTTOCKS
|
46 |
$108,880 |
CHEST
(INCLUDING RIBS, STERNUM AND SOFT TISSUE) |
648 |
$1,549,788 |
DISC
|
84 |
$1,397,043 |
DISC
|
101 |
$884,092 |
EAR(S)
|
795 |
$5,140,495 |
ELBOW
|
1,153 |
$4,239,365 |
EYE(S)
|
318 |
$1,323,487 |
FACIAL
BONES |
30 |
$63,678 |
FINGER(S)
|
2,896 |
$6,595,243 |
FOOT
|
1,529 |
$4,269,175 |
GREAT
TOE |
76 |
$57,219 |
HAND
|
2,157 |
$5,788,174 |
HEART
|
9 |
$9,619 |
HIP
|
344 |
$1,965,988 |
INSUFFICIENT
INFO TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY-UNCLASSIFIED |
402 |
$1,224,070 |
INTERNAL
ORGANS |
242 |
$1,323,485 |
KNEE
|
4,519 |
$19,651,297 |
LARYNX
|
9 |
$14,877 |
LOWER
ARM |
875 |
$2,807,235 |
LOWER
BACK AREA (INCLUDING LUMBAR AND LUMBO-SACRA |
12,584 |
$50,346,034 |
LOWER
LEG |
852 |
$2,873,144 |
LUMBAR
AND/OR SACRAL VERTEBRA (VERTEBRA NOC TRUNK) |
38 |
$83,079 |
LUNGS
|
89 |
$1,025,878 |
MOUTH
|
30 |
$209,959 |
MULTIPLE
BODY PARTS (INCLUDING BODY SYSTEMS & BODY PARTS) |
4,495 |
$32,621,040 |
MULTIPLE
HEAD INJURY |
327 |
$1,412,689 |
MULTIPLE
LOWER EXTREMITIES |
447 |
$3,987,593 |
MULTIPLE
NECK INJURY |
530 |
$4,760,408 |
MULTIPLE
TRUNK |
645 |
$3,904,117 |
MULTIPLE
UPPER EXTREMITIES |
1,140 |
$5,676,934 |
NO
PHYSICAL INJURY |
14 |
$26,525 |
NOSE
|
50 |
$40,497 |
OTHER
FACIAL SOFT TISSUE |
115 |
$539,926 |
PELVIS
|
219 |
$1,943,923 |
SACRUM
AND COCCYX |
66 |
$308,257 |
SHOULDER(S)
|
3,224 |
$15,389,481 |
SKULL
|
117 |
$530,342 |
SOFT
TISSUE |
190 |
$660,934 |
SPINAL
CORD |
17 |
$137,605 |
SPINAL
CORD |
10 |
$17,117 |
TEETH
|
10 |
$5,005 |
THIGH
|
200 |
$446,549 |
THUMB
|
969 |
$2,089,991 |
TOE(S)
|
264 |
$439,661 |
TRACHEA
|
3 |
$7,791 |
UPPER
ARM (INCLUDING CLAVICLE AND SCAPULA) |
1,720 |
$11,670,488 |
UPPER
BACK AREA (THORACIC AREA) |
719 |
$1,898,526 |
VERTEBRAE
|
54 |
$294,204 |
WRIST
|
3,564 |
$12,688,122 |
WRIST(S)
& HAND(S) |
133 |
$425,629 |
TOTAL |
52,868 |
$226,583,628 |
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