Definition
Occupational injury - an injury which results from a work-related event or a single instantaneous exposure in the work environment. If one person is injured in more than one occupational accident during the reference period, each case of injury to that person should be counted separately. Recurrent absences due to an injury resulting from a single occupational accident should be treated as the continuation of the same case of occupational injury not as a new case. Where more than one (1) person is injured in a single accident, each case of occupational injury should be counted separately.
Temporary incapacity - case where the injured person was unable to work for at least one day excluding the day of the accident but, 1) was able to perform again the normal duties of work in the job or position occupied at the time of the occupational accident causing the injury or 2.) will be able to perform the same job but his/her total absence from work is expected not to exceed a year from the day of the accident or 3.) did not return to the same job but the reason for changing the job is not related to his/her inability to perform the job at the time of the occupational accident.
