OSHA requires that for four specific incidents, businesses must make a report directly to the government. Beyond the four reportable incident types, OSHA specifies that businesses write up what it defines as recordable incidents and maintain a running log of these injuries, illnesses and fatalities.

Accordingly, while work-related broken, chipped, or fractured teeth diagnosed by a physician or other licensed health care professional are recordable on the OSHA Forms, such cases are only reportable to OSHA under Section 1904.39(a)(2) when they result in in-patient hospitalization.

How does OSHA define a recordable injury or illness? Any work-related injury or illness that results in loss of consciousness, days away from work, restricted work, or transfer to another job. Any work-related injury or illness requiring medical treatment beyond first aid.

Examples of avulsion that do not need to be reported include deglovings, scalpings, fingernail and toenail removal, eyelid removal, loss of a tooth, and severed ears. OSHA clarified that the loss of a fingertip is considered an amputation and is reportable.

Degloving of the skin of the thumb is very rarely associated with amputation at the tuft of the terminal phalangeal region. The nail plate is usually avulsed, but the nail bed may be retained on the stump.

An amputation is the traumatic loss of all or part of a limb or other external body part. This would include fingertip amputations with or without bone loss; medical amputations resulting from irreparable damage; and amputations of body parts that have since been reattached.

As far as legislation goes, there is no U.S. federal law preventing the ownership of body parts, unless they’re Native American. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act makes it illegal to own or trade in Native American remains. Otherwise, a few states restrict owning or selling human body parts.

Problems are more common with lower-limb prostheses, but over time this suction can cause chronic swelling, a bulbous end on the limb, dark red discoloration, and in extreme cases hyperplasia or neoplasia (an aggressive overgrowth of abnormal skin tissue) at the end of the limb. are well-known to prosthetic users.

Mobility and dexterity The main effect of a lower-limb amputation is a reduction of that person’s mobility, meaning that they will not be able to walk as they did pre-injury or surgery. In the majority of cases, after sufficient care and rehabilitation, the injured person will be able to make use of a prosthetic limb.

Pain management after an amputation is challenging. Amputation of a limb may result in pain which is amongst the most severe a person may ever experience. The pain experienced after amputation is the result of direct damage to the bones and soft tissue as well as nerve related (neural).