Accident Classification
Records and Rates
Williams-Steiger Act of 1970
Created OSHA
Requires most employers to maintain records
of employee work-related injuries and
illnesses
Additionally, reports must be made to state
compensation authorities
Two Injury Recording Systems
ANSI (American National Standards
Institute)
Dates back to 1920
ANSI Z16.1
No longer commonly used
Two Injury Recording Systems
OSHA recordkeeping
employers with 11 or more employees
records must be kept for each individual
establishment
2 forms
OSHA No. 200 Log
OSHA No. 101 Supplemental record
OSHA Definitions
Recordable case
must involve a death, injury, or illness to an
employee
must result from work
must result in one of the following
medical treatment beyond first aid
loss of consciousness
restriction of work or motion
transfer to another job
Recordable cases
All occupational illnesses must be recorded
Injuries must meet previous criteria
Recordable cases
Three categories
Fatalities--all must be recorded regardless of
time between injury and death
Lost workday cases--results in either days away
from work or days of restricted work activity
Cases not resulting in death or lost workdays
OSHA Definitions
Work Relationship
To be work related, must meet one of these
criteria
engaged in work activity
present as condition of employment
travel status and engaged in work or travel function
OSHA Incidence Rates
Method of measurement which adjusts for
company size and employee exposure time
Based on exposure of 100 full-time (40 hr.)
employees, working 50 weeks per
year=200,000 man-hours
May be interpreted as percentage of
employees expected to be injured (or
become ill) in one year.
Incidence Rate
Equals
No. of recordable cases
X
200,000
______________________
Total man hours in period
Severity Rate
Similar to Incidence Rate formula, but uses
total number of lost workdays.
May be interpreted as expected number of
lost workdays per 100 employees per year
This is NOT a percentage!
Severity Rate
Equals
No. of lost workdays
X
200,000
__________________
Total man hours in period
Average Severity
Severity Rate divided by incidence rate
<OR>
Number of lost workdays divided by
number of recordable cases
Provides average measure of the severity of
all injuries
Average Severity
Ave. Sev. = SR / IR
Average Days Away from Work
Similar to Average Severity, but includes
only cases that involve days lost.
Average Days Away
from Work
Equals
Total days away from work
Total cases involving days
away from work
Definition
Lost workdays--no. of days, consecutive or
not, beyond day of injury or onset of illness,
the employee was away from work or
limited to restricted work activity due to the
injury or illness.
Counting Lost Workdays
OSHA
Days away from work or of restricted work
activity does NOT include day of injury or
onset of illness OR any days the employee
would not have worked even though able to
work
ANSI Classification of
Disabling Injuries
Death--any fatality resulting from a work injury,
no time limit
Permanent total disability--injury other than death
which
permanently and totally incapacitates employee from
work
loss of both eyes
one eye and one hand,arm, foot or leg
Permanent total disability cont.
any two of the following not on same limb
hand, arm, foot, leg
Permanent partial disability--results in
complete loss or loss of use of any member
or part of the body
Temporary total disability--does not result
in death or permanent disability, but does
result in one or more days of disability.
There is NO CLASSIFICATION for
temporary partial disability
OSHA
vs.
lost workdays
actual days missed from
work
Days of restricted/limited
work activity
ANSI
days charged
disabling injuries
recordable cases
all illness
qualifying injuries
for permanent disabling-pre-determined number of
days
must miss at least one day
from work