 Incident

 With Loss – Accident

 With Potential of Loss – Near Miss
 First Aid Case
 Medical Treatment Case
 Restricted Work Case
 Lost Time Injury
 Fatality
 First Aid Case (FAC):
 An injury which does not need any prescribed drug or
treatment for healing. Such as:
▪ Using a non-prescription medication at non-prescription
strength
▪ Administering tetanus immunizations
▪ Cleaning, flushing or soaking wounds on the surface of
the skin
▪ Using wound coverings such as bandages, Band-Aids™,
gauze pads, etc.; or using butterfly bandages or Steri-
Strips™
▪ Using hot or cold therapy;
 Using any non-rigid means of support, such as elastic
bandages, wraps, non-rigid back belts, etc.
 Drinking fluids for relief of heat stress.
 Using massages,
 Using finger guards;
 Removing splinters or foreign material from areas other than
the eye by irrigation, tweezers, cotton swabs or other simple
means;
 Removing foreign bodies from the eye using only irrigation
or a cotton swab;
 Using eye patches
 Drilling of a fingernail or toenail to relieve pressure, or
draining fluid from a blister;
 Medical Treatment Case (MTC):
 the management and care of a patient to combat
disease or disorder which includes treatments
beyond first aid such as:
▪ for medications available in both prescription and non-
prescription form, a recommendation by a physician or
other licensed health care professional to use a non-
prescription medication at prescription strength is
considered medical treatment
 wound closing devices such as sutures, staples, etc.,
 devices with rigid stays or other systems designed to
immobilize parts of the body are considered medical
treatment
 physical therapy or chiropractic treatment
 Restricted Work Case (RWC)
 a work-related injury or illness because of which an
employer or health care professional keeps, or
recommends keeping, an employee away from doing the
routine functions of his or her job or from working the full
workday that the employee would have been scheduled to
work before the injury or illness occurred.
 Record of no. of hours or days for which the worker was on
restricted work needs to be maintained.
 Lost Time Injury
 If an employee is injured while carrying out a work-related
task for the employer, and is then unable to perform the
regular duties for a complete shift after the incident.
 Duration is calculated from the time of the initial injury
until the time the employee is able to return to regular
work duties, the time lost is the duration of the lost time
injury. Regular work duties are those duties that are
defined in the job description of the employee.