RULE 1050:

Notification and Keeping of

Records of Accidents and
Occupational Illnesses
PARDILLA RIBLEZA SALVADOR
DE VERA QUINTANA
 MEDICAL TREATMENT INJURY
 an injury which does not result in
disabling injury but which requires first-
aid and medical treatment of any kind
DISABLING INJURY
RULE 1051  a work injury which results in death,
permanent total disability, permanent
or temporary partial disability
DEATH
 any fatality resulting from a work injury
regardless of the time intervening
between injury and death
 PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY
 any injury or sickness other than death which
permanently and totally incapacitates an
employee from engaging in any gainful
occupation or which results in the loss or the
complete loss pf use of the following in one
accident:
RULE 1051  A. both eyes
 B. one eye and one hand, or arm or leg or foot
 C. any two of the following not in the same
limb, hand, arm, foot leg
 D. permanent complete paralysis of two limbs
 E. brain injury resulting in incurable imbecibility
or insanity
 PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILILTY
 an injury which results in the loss of use of any
part of the body regardless of any pre-existing
disability of the injured or impaired body
function
TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY
 any injury or illness which results in disability
RULE 1051 from work for a day or more
REGULARLY ESTABLISHED JOB
 the occupation or job description of the
activities performed by an employee at the
time of the accident and shall not mean one
which has been established especially to
accommodate an injured employee, either for
therapeutic reason or to avoid counting the
case as disability
 DAY OF DISABILITY
 any day in which an employee in unable,
because of injury or illness, to perform
effectively throughout a full shift the
essential functions of a regularly
established job
RULE 1051 TOTAL DAYS LOST
 the combined total, for all injuries or
illness of:
 A. all days of disability resulting from
temporary total injuries or illness
 B. all scheduled charges assigned to fatal,
permanent total and permanent partial
injuries or illness
 SCHEDULED CHARGES
 the specific charge ( in full days ) assigned
to a permanent partial, permanent total,
or fatal injury or illness
EMPLOYEE
 for the purpose of counting injuries or
RULE 1051 illness or calculating exposures shall be as
defined in rule 1002 and shall include
working owners and officers
EXPOSURE
 the total number of employee-hours
worked by all employees of the reporting
establishment or unit
 DISABLING INJURY FREQUENCY
RATE
the number of disabling injuries per
1,000,000 employee-hours of
exposure rounded to the nearest
RULE 1051 two decimal places
DISABLING INJURY SEVERITY RATE
the number of days lost per
1,000,000 employees-hours of
exposure rounded to the nearest
whole number