Research
and Statistics
Part of Body - Claims
Closed in 1999
The most frequent body part injured was
the lower back (n=14,225) which also represented a significant overall
portion of indemnity payments for lost time ($56M). Multiple body parts
was also relatively frequent (n=5,397), with a relatively high cost of
lost time per claim (around $6.2K per claim). The upper arm was reported
as the injured body part for 2,469 claims with an average lost time cost
of around $6.6K per claim.
|
PART OF BODY |
1999
CLAIMS |
LOST WAGE
COMPENSATION |
|
ABDOMEN (INCLUDING GROIN) |
1,350 |
2,015,415 |
|
ANKLE |
2,216 |
5,399,843 |
|
BODY SYSTEMS AND MULTIPLE BODY SYSTEMS |
229 |
3,593,513 |
|
BRAIN |
41 |
502,358 |
|
BUTTOCKS |
36 |
92,456 |
|
CHEST (INCLUDING RIBS, STERNUM AND SOFT TISSUE) |
691 |
1,466,320 |
|
DISC |
85 |
1,213,521 |
|
DISC |
71 |
628,424 |
|
EAR(S) |
802 |
5,196,211 |
|
ELBOW |
1,336 |
4,538,775 |
|
EYE(S) |
353 |
726,385 |
|
FACIAL BONES |
32 |
52,087 |
|
FINGER(S) |
3,291 |
6,708,018 |
|
FOOT |
1,628 |
4,266,940 |
|
GREAT TOE |
89 |
89,109 |
|
HAND |
2,244 |
5,660,860 |
|
HEART |
10 |
78,084 |
|
HIP |
338 |
1,051,831 |
|
INSUFFICIENT INFO TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY-UNCLASSIFIE |
373 |
592,328 |
|
INTERNAL ORGANS |
451 |
2,277,233 |
|
KNEE |
4,916 |
19,584,041 |
|
LARYNX |
6 |
21,436 |
|
LOWER ARM |
923 |
2,366,879 |
|
LOWER BACK AREA (INCLUDING LUMBAR AND LUMBO-SACRA |
14,225 |
56,349,341 |
|
LOWER LEG |
918 |
3,358,770 |
|
LUMBAR AND/OR SACRAL VERTEBRA (VERTEBRA NOC TRUNK) |
28 |
62,679 |
|
LUNGS |
91 |
662,916 |
|
MOUTH |
25 |
50,430 |
|
MULTIPLE BODY PARTS (INCLUDING BODY SYSTEMS &
BODY |
5,397 |
33,685,445 |
|
MULTIPLE HEAD INJURY |
382 |
1,977,592 |
|
MULTIPLE LOWER EXTREMITIES |
605 |
3,482,097 |
|
MULTIPLE NECK INJURY |
638 |
3,298,726 |
|
MULTIPLE TRUNK |
1,037 |
5,349,973 |
|
MULTIPLE UPPER EXTREMITIES |
1,299 |
7,335,321 |
|
NO PHYSICAL INJURY |
8 |
12,411 |
|
NOSE |
53 |
24,198 |
|
OTHER FACIAL SOFT TISSUE |
113 |
312,590 |
|
PELVIS |
310 |
2,172,622 |
|
SACRUM AND COCCYX |
91 |
194,084 |
|
SHOULDER(S) |
2,559 |
8,641,209 |
|
SKULL |
123 |
970,292 |
|
SOFT TISSUE |
191 |
458,433 |
|
SPINAL CORD |
43 |
397,630 |
|
SPINAL CORD |
4 |
26,276 |
|
TEETH |
14 |
6,205 |
|
THIGH |
180 |
659,623 |
|
THUMB |
1,082 |
2,202,303 |
|
TOE(S) |
342 |
691,874 |
|
TRACHEA |
4 |
5,846 |
|
UPPER ARM (INCLUDING CLAVICLE AND SCAPULA) |
2,469 |
16,422,796 |
|
UPPER BACK AREA (THORACIC AREA) |
764 |
1,606,319 |
|
VERTEBRAE |
72 |
273,312 |
|
WRIST |
3,901 |
13,376,722 |
|
WRIST(S) & HAND(S) |
141 |
336,386 |
|
TOTAL |
58,620 |
$232,526,488 |
|
