Table 6

Cause, nature and part injury descriptions for student-related injury

	Lost-time claims	Medical-only claims	Resulting in lost time (%)	Total claims*	Total student claims (%)
	198	2112	8.6	2310	100
Cause†–mechanism of injury
Cut, puncture, scrape	1	226	0.4	227	9.8
Exposures to	0	40	0.0	40	1.7
Fall, slip or trip injury	20	90	18.2	110	4.8
Miscellaneous causes	1	17	5.6	18	0.8
Motor vehicle	0	2	0.0	2	0.1
Strain	52	281	15.6	333	14.4
Striking against or stepping on	0	14	0.0	14	0.6
Struck by	124	1442	7.9	1566	67.8
Nature†–injury type
All other	0	12	0.0	12	0.5
Concussion	15	13	53.6	28	1.2
Exposure	2	67	2.9	69	3.0
Contusion	28	874	3.1	902	39.0
Dislocate	0	9	0.0	9	0.4
Fracture	19	34	35.8	53	2.3
Foreign body	0	6	0.0	6	0.3
Hearing loss	1	3	25.0	4	0.2
Hernia	3	0	100	3	0.1
Inflammation	0	6	0.0	6	0.3
Laceration	2	139	1.4	141	6.1
Mental and physical	2	0	100	2	0.1
Multiple physical	4	34	10.5	38	1.6
No physical	0	15	0.0	15	0.6
Puncture	1	144	0.7	145	6.3
Sprain/strain	121	756	13.8	877	38.0
Part†–body location
Head	27	418	6.1	445	19.3
Lower extremities	31	262	10.6	293	12.7
Multiple injuries	36	367	8.9	403	17.4
Neck	8	35	18.6	43	1.9
Trunk	48	318	13.1	366	15.8
Upper extremities	48	712	6.3	760	32.9

*All student-related injuries in the data set were examined, including an additional 202 not in the rate and multivariate analysis because they could not be linked to the underlying employee population data.
†All claims were assigned a part, nature and cause of injury code by the insurer as part of reporting standard using Workers’ Compensation Insurance Organization codes. Cause and part subcategories were combined.