Research
and Statistics
Nature of Injury - Claims
Closed in 1999
Strains were the most frequent nature of
injury (n=26,267) with a lost time payment total around $97M. All other
cumulative injuries did not consist of a tremendous number of claims
(1,144), it did average a fair cost per claim (around $8.5K per claim).
NATURE OF INJURY |
CLAIMS |
LOST WAGE
COMPENSATION |
AIDS
|
1 |
1,766 |
ALL
OTHER - SPECIFIC INJURIES (NOT OTHERWISE CLAS |
7,913 |
38,053,711 |
ALL
OTHER CUMULATIVE INJURIES (NOT OTHERWISE CLASS |
1,144 |
9,772,106 |
ALL
OTHER OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE |
30 |
145,918 |
AMPUTATION
|
384 |
2,859,716 |
ANGINA
PECTORIS (CONDITION ASSOCIATED WITH HEART) |
4 |
18,092 |
ASBESTOSIS
|
10 |
589,276 |
ASPHYXIATION
|
15 |
326,542 |
BURN
|
816 |
1,503,879 |
CANCER
|
6 |
331,838 |
CARPAL
TUNNEL SYNDROME |
1,730 |
6,917,318 |
CONCUSSION
|
93 |
609,053 |
CONTAGIOUS
DISEASE |
19 |
11,509 |
CONTUSION
|
3,740 |
10,977,535 |
CRUSHING
|
577 |
1,629,967 |
DERMATITIS
|
166 |
366,340 |
DISLOCATION
|
416 |
6,240,990 |
DUST
DISEASE NOC (ALL OTHER PNEUMOCONIOSIS) |
10 |
19,777 |
ELECTRIC
SHOCK |
113 |
699,216 |
ENUCLEATION
(TO REMOVE, EX. TUMOR, EYE, ETC.) |
2 |
220 |
FOREIGN
BODY |
188 |
182,191 |
FRACTURE
|
3,731 |
19,946,420 |
FREEZING
|
14 |
47,339 |
HEARING
LOSS (TRAUMATIC ONLY) |
29 |
141,098 |
HEAT
PROSTRATION |
10 |
8,968 |
HERNIA
|
1,207 |
2,355,194 |
INFECTION
|
136 |
337,262 |
INFLAMMATION
|
1,125 |
3,869,630 |
LACERATION
|
2,977 |
6,607,796 |
LOSS
OF HEARING |
736 |
4,892,180 |
MENTAL
DISORDER |
14 |
369,913 |
MENTAL
STRESS |
66 |
418,153 |
MULTIPLE
INJURIES INCLUDING BOTH PHYSICAL AND PSYC |
25 |
25,506 |
MULTIPLE
INJURIES PHYSICAL ONLY |
850 |
2,178,491 |
MYOCARDIAL
INFARCTION (HEART ATTACK) |
7 |
207,558 |
NO
PHYSICAL INJURY |
10 |
23,958 |
POISONING-CHEMICAL
(OTHER THAN METALS) |
50 |
782,340 |
POISONING-GENERAL
(NOT OD OR CUMULATIVE INJURY AND |
31 |
24,119 |
POISONING-METAL
|
2 |
17,096 |
PUNCTURE
|
439 |
531,689 |
RADIATION
|
1 |
21 |
RESPIRATORY
DISORDERS (GASES, FUMES, CHEMICALS, ET |
153 |
2,043,511 |
RUPTURE
|
238 |
2,068,644 |
SEVERANCE
|
66 |
264,227 |
SILICOSIS
|
1 |
80,000 |
SPRAIN
|
3,035 |
6,443,955 |
STRAIN
|
26,267 |
97,505,374 |
SWOONING,
FAINTING, PASSING OUT, NO OTHER INJURY ( |
9 |
39,391 |
VASCULAR
LOSS |
8 |
26,055 |
VDT-RELATED
DISEASE |
2 |
9,344 |
VISION
LOSS |
4 |
4,296 |
TOTAL |
58,620 |
$232,526,488 |
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