Injury (occupational) means an injury that result in death, loss of consciousness and
administration of medical treatment, temporary assignment to other duties and transfer to another job, or
inability to perform all duties on any day after the injury.
Injury is considered to include occupational disease and work-connected disability. Work injury
is defined as an injury suffered by a person, which arises out of and in the course of his employment. It is
an external damage to human body; disturbance or dysfunction resulted from an accident. By cause it
may be mechanical, thermal, chemical, radiated or combined.
Injury is physical harm or damage to the body resulting from an exchange of (usually acute,
mechanical, chemical, thermal or other environmental) energy that exceeds the body's tolerance.
Disabling injury is an injury causing death, permanent disability, or any degree of temporary
total disability beyond the day of the injury (Accident Facts, 1997, NSC, USA).
Source of injury is the principal object such as tool, machine, chemical vessel or equipment
involved in the accident and is usually the object inflicting injury or property damage. Also called agency
or agent.
Property damage accident is an accident, which results in property damage, but in which no
person is injured.
Non-fatal injury accident is an accident in which at least one person is injured, and no injury
results in death.