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Injury

 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.