Classification of industrial accidents according to the bodily location of the injury

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Annex G: Classification of industrial accidents according to the bodily

location of the injury1

This classification may also be used to classify commuting accidents.

The groups relating to multiple locations should be used only to classify cases

where the victim suffers from several injuries to different parts of the body and no

injury obviously is more severe than the others. When in an accident which caused

multiple injuries located at different parts of the body one of these injuries is obviously

more severe than the others, this accident should be classified in the group

corresponding to the location of the obviously more severe injury. For example, a

fracture of the leg accompanied by a scratch of the hand should be classified in group

54.

1. Head

11 Cranium region (skull, brain, scalp)

12 Eye (including orbit and optic nerve)

13 Ear

14 Mouth (including lips, teeth and tongue)

15 Nose

16 Face, locations not classified elsewhere

18 Head, multiple locations

19 Head, unspecified location

2. Neck (including throat and cervical vertebrae)

3. Trunk

31 Back (spinal column and adjoining muscles, spinal cord)

32 Chest (ribs, sternum, internal organs of the chest)

33 Abdomen (including internal organs)

34 Pelvis

38 Trunk, multiple locations

39 Trunk, unspecified location

4. Upper limb

41 Shoulder (including clavicle and shoulder blade)

42 Upper arm

1 Resolution conceming statistics of employment injuries. Tenth International Conference of Labour

Statisticians, Geneva, 2-12 October 1962.