Document LM4DXkeBwqjp977VJOEaOND5

1 Going to or from his regular place of employment during normal, routine travel Normal or routine travel includes travel at irregular hours due to late shifts, overtime, special or emergency work 2 Outside company property during work ing hours for personal reasons, not m the interest of his employer or the agent of his employer, nor m the performance of duties of employment 3 Going to or from his home to a designated place where his crew meets, or where he will be met by special company trans portation if his work place is inaccessible to ordinary transportation 4 On a company parking lot provided for his convenience to park his car, and not performing duties of employment 5 Engaged m company-sponsored athletic events for which he receives no pay directly or indirectly 6 Engaged in activities not connected with his employment while living on company property 7 Engaged in a fight or other dispute over matters not pertaining to his or his an tagonist's duties of employment 8 Eating his lunch during a specifically de fined lunch period or off-duty period (However, if an injury arises out of hazards of the work area at such a time, it would be considered a work injury) Interpretation of injury rates Frequency rate This rate shows the rate of occurrence of disabling injuries Since a relationship is needed to give the rate mean ing, disabling injuries are related to 1,000,000 employee-hours of work A rate of 20 0 means that disabling injuries were incurred at the rate of 20 for each 1,000,000 employee-hours worked Oc casionally, this interpretation may be difficult to understand, particularly when a company does not work 1,000,000 emplovee-hours during the period for which the rate is de termined However, as with a vehicle which can travel 60 miles per hour without being operated for an entire hour, a plant can have a rate of 20 injuries per 1,000,000 employeehours without actually working this number of hours On the average an employee works about 2000 hours per year (in the United States) One million employee-hours, then, represents a year's work for about 500 employees In general terms, therefore, a rate of 20 0 may be interpreted as 20 disabling injuries per year for each 500 employees, or 1 disabling injury for each 25 employees Expressed m another way, if a plant has an injury rate of 20 0 during the year, 1 of every 25 employees was injured to the extent that he lost at least one full day of work or suffered some perma nent impairment Seventy rate. This rate shows the rate at which days are lost or charged m relation to 1,000,000 employee-hours of work A seventy rate of 500 means that 500 days were lost or charged for every 1,000,000 employee-hours worked As with the fre quency rate, the base may be interpreted more generally in terms of employees, and since 1,000,000 employee-hours represents the yearly expenence of about500 employees, a seventy rate of 500 may be interpreted as 500 days lost or charged for each 500 em ployees, or about one day lost or charged for each employee Included m the severity rate are both actual days lost and scheduled charges, with the total heavily weighted by the latter In most cases in which scheduled charges are as sessed, these charges exceed the actual days lost For example, amputation of the index finger cames a scheduled charge of400 days, which is used in place of the actual days lost It is improbable, that a disability of this type will cause the worker to lose 400 days The severity rate, then, must not be in terpreted as showing the number of days lost because of injunes Actually, it shows the number of days lost or charged, and the charges which represent potential losses of production outweigh the actual days lost at the time of the injury Average days charged per disabling in jury This measure shows how senous the injunes were, on the average, and thus may reveal conditions not readily apparent from a review of frequency or seventy rates alone It thus makes possible a more complete evaluation of injury expenence To illustrate how this measure may be 263