{"id":4971,"date":"2020-06-23T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2020-06-23T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:55:50","slug":"the-occupational-injury-and-illness-classification-system-oiics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/the-occupational-injury-and-illness-classification-system-oiics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwn.cdc.gov\/wisards\/oiics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cthe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) developed the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS) to characterize occupational injury and illness incidents.\u201d There are been several revisions to the original system. The OICS breaks down workplace injuries and illnesses into the following four categories:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwn.cdc.gov\/wisards\/oiics\/Trees\/MultiTree.aspx?TreeType=Nature\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0of the injury or illness. The principal physical characteristic(s) of the injury or illness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwn.cdc.gov\/wisards\/oiics\/Trees\/MultiTree.aspx?TreeType=BodyPart\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of Body Affected<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0by the injury or illness. The part of the body directly affected by the previously identified nature of injury or illness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwn.cdc.gov\/wisards\/oiics\/Trees\/MultiTree.aspx?TreeType=Source\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source and Secondary Source<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0of the injury or illness. The objects, substances, equipment, and other factors that were responsible for the injury or illness incurred by the worker or that precipitated the event or exposure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwn.cdc.gov\/wisards\/oiics\/Trees\/MultiTree.aspx?TreeType=Event\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Event or Exposure<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The manner in which the injury or illness was produced or inflicted by the source of injury or illness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each of the four categories is broken down into further subcategories. The categories include definition and examples. Some of the relevant sections, that may be used to assess workplace injuries and illnesses are the following. In many cases, an injury or illnesses may be categorized in another part of the OICCS<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><i>Event or Exposure<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Violence and Other Injuries by Persons or Animals<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0This category covers \u201cviolence and other injuries by persons or animals.\u201d It includes intentional injuries, injuries with weapons (such as firearms and tools designed to be used as weapons) \u2013 regardless of intent. It also includes \u201cinjuries involving direct physical contact with persons, animals, or insects regardless of intent.\u201d Unfortunately, this has become more of an issue these days, due to workplace violence and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/using-our-skills-to-try-and-keep-a-horrific-tragedy-from-getting-worse\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mass shootings.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The category doesn\u2019t include injuries due to overexertion or bodily reactions such as running after a suspect or being unintentionally hit by a box thrown or dropped by another person. It also doesn\u2019t include unintentional drug overdoses and \u201cexposures to infectious agents unless intentional or transmitted by an insect or animal bite.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Transportation Incidents.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The category includes transportation vehicles, powered industrial vehicles, powered industrial equipment involving at least one vehicle (or mobile equipment) \u2013\u201cand the injury or illness was due to collision or other type of traffic incident; loss of control &#8211; or a sudden stop, start, or jolting of a vehicle regardless of the location where the event occurred.\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are additional requirements for transportation accidents involving pedestrians, roadway workers, and other non-passengers struck by a vehicle or other qualifying vehicles or powered equipment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The category applies to many different vehicles including railway vehicles, animals and other non-motorized transportation, aircraft, water vehicles, roadway accidents, and pedestrian accidents. The category includes cars, trucks, RVs, motorcycles, buses, amusement park rail vehicles, canoes, fishing boats, Segways, snow mobiles, forklifts, and other listed vehicle types.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Falls \u201con or from vehicles are transportation incidents if the vehicle was in normal operation.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This category doesn\u2019t include events such as injuries due to the vibration of a vehicle, carbon monoxide poisoning, spilling hot drinks where there\u2019s no collision, gear slips, and other specified incidents.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vehicles that doesn\u2019t fall into this category include, \u201cdollies, carts, wheelbarrows Nonindustrial, non-roadway mobile equipment Wheelchairs&#8211;motorized and nonmotorized, stretchers, and wagons.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Fires And Explosions.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This category includes cases where a person falls or jumps from a burning building, inhales harmful substances, or is pinned or struck by objects due to the explosion or fire. The category also includes \u201cincidents in which the worker was injured due to being trapped in a fire or whose respirator had run out of oxygen during a fire.\u201d It doesn\u2019t include fires or explosions caused by transportation accidents or intentional actions \u2013 which are covered elsewhere. It includes a variety of injuries to firefighters such as injuries from lifting hoses, arson and falls in a parking lot of a burning building.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Injuries due to direct contact with flames from controlled sources such as stove tops that someone in a restaurant kitchen might suffer; and burns due to touching ovens, grills, and burners \u2013 are covered elsewhere.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, many times folks who come through such experiences, as well as workplace violence will still suffer terrible psychiatric effects long after the physical injuries have healed. Our firm deals with many cases like this, which typically involve development of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/4412-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Falls, Slips, and Trips.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These include \u201cfalls on the same level, falls and jumps to lower levels, falls and jumps that were curtailed by a personal arrest device, and slips and trips that do not result in a fall.\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Falls that are covered in other sections include<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stepping to a lower level (such as, off a ladder, out of a vehicle, or off a curb), falls through openings in floors, or falling into a body of water.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Exposure to Harmful Substances or Environments<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Over time, long-term exposures to noise or other harmful substances such as asbestos, silica, or trichloroethylene (TCE) can result in severe impairments, such as asbestosis, cancer, brain damage, and death.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Contact with Objects and Equipment.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This category applies to contact between the injured person and the source of injury unless the contact is covered in another category such as a fall or a violent act. The category doesn\u2019t include workplace contact with other people or animals. It also doesn\u2019t include exposures to hot or cold objects or substances, contact with electrical currents, exposure to toxins or allergic substances, and exposures to infectious agents. Those contacts are generally covered in other categories.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Overexertion and Bodily Reaction.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This category applies generally to non-impact injuries or illnesses that result from \u201cfree bodily motion, from excessive physical effort, from repetition of a bodily motion, from the assumption of an unnatural position, or from remaining in the same position over a period of time.\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further subcategories include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overexertion and bodily reaction, unspecified. Examples include lifting, pushing, pulling, turning, holding, carrying, wielding, throwing, and catching<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overexertion involving outside sources<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repetitive motions involving microtasks\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other exertions or bodily reactions\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple types of over-exertions and bodily reactions\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/practice-areas\/workers-compensation\/\">workers\u2019 compensation<\/a> lawyer Joe Miller Esq. has helped thousands of workers in North Carolina and in Virginia get just recoveries for a wide variety of workplace injuries. He\u2019s been fighting for employees for more than 31 years. He has the experience and resources to fully document your medical expenses, your lost wages, and any other related work injury costs. He\u2019ll fight to get you a strong recovery. To schedule an appointment with a respected work injury lawyer, is please phone Joe Miller, Esq., at <\/span><b>888-667-8295<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. or fill out my online <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/contact-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contact form<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, \u201cthe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) developed the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS) to characterize occupational injury and illness incidents.\u201d There are been several revisions to the original system. The OICS breaks down workplace injuries and illnesses into the following four categories: Nature\u00a0of the &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/the-occupational-injury-and-illness-classification-system-oiics\/#more-4971\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS)\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,226,31],"tags":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Joe Miller","author_link":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/author\/jmiller\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, \u201cthe Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) developed the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS) to characterize occupational injury and illness incidents.\u201d There are been several revisions to the original system. 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