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An accident at work is defined as an external, sudden, unexpected, unintended, and violent event, during the execution of work or arising out of it, which causes damage to the health of or loss of the life of the employee (the insured).
For qualification as an accident at work to apply, there must be a causal relationship (direct or indirect relationship of cause and effect) between the violent event and the work. Only if the accident is due to
"willful misrepresentation" on the part of the employer or the employer's appointed representative is the employer under an obligation to compensate the victim. Under U.S. law, injured workers are often compensated according to the type of injury, rather than permitting them to sue the employer for the actual damages.
There is a significant proportion of work accidents occurring in the merchant marine.
* Burns are injuries caused by excess heat or sometimes cold (frostbite).
* Fractures are injuries to bones.
* Wound: cuts and grazes are injuries to the skin, that can cause bleeding (i.e. a laceration).
* A bruise is a
hemorrhage under the skin caused by contusion.
* Damage to a person's sense of self-worth can be considered an emotional injury. An example is harm to one's perception of her or his gender resulting from sexual harassment, which is considered a form of violence.
Burns
In medicine, a burn is a type of injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation (an example of the latter is sunburn).
Immediate first aid for burns consists of immersing the injured area in cool clean water to cool the injured tissues.
There are in modern terminology three degrees of burns.
* First-degree burns are usually limited to redness and pain at the site
* Second-degree burns additionally have blistering of the skin
* Third-degree burns additionally have charring of the skin or eschar formation. An eschar is a scab that has separated from the unaffected part of the body. These are painless because at this stage the nerve endings are burnt away.
A work related burn that injures the tissues underlying the skin, such as the muscles or bones, are sometimes characterized as "fourth-degree burns". (In classical medical literature there were six degrees; with fourth-degree burns the skin is irretrievably lost, in fifth-degree burns the muscle is irretrievably lost, in sixth-degree burns the bone is charred. Serious burns, especially if they cover large areas of the body, can cause death; any hint of burn injury to the lungs, for example through smoke inhalation, is a medical emergency.
Chemical burns are usually caused by chemical compounds, such as sodium hydroxide (lye), silver nitrate, and more serious compounds (such as sulfuric acid). Note that most chemicals (but not all) that can cause moderate to severe chemical burns are strong acids or bases. Nitric acid is possibly one of the worst burn-causing chemicals, as an oxidizer. Most chemicals that can cause moderate to severe chemical burns are called caustic.
Electrical burns are generally symptoms of electrocution, being struck by lightning, being defibrillated or cardioverted without conductive gel, etc. Survival of severe burn injuries is markedly improved if the patient is treated in a specialized burn center rather than a hospital.
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