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Glossary of
Workplace Injury Law Terms
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Dangerous Goods:
The term used in TDG regulations to describe hazardous
materials.
Date of injury:
If your injury was caused by one event, the date it happened
is the date of injury. If the injury or illness was caused by
repeated events, the date of injury is the date you knew, or
should have known, the injury was caused by work.
Death benefits:
Benefits paid to surviving dependents when a work injury
results in death.
Deceleration device:
Any mechanism, such as a rope grab, rip-stitch lanyard,
specially-woven lanyard, tearing or deforming lanyard,
automatic self-retracting lifeline/lanyard, etc., which serves
to dissipate a substantial amount of energy during a fall
arrest, or otherwise limit the energy imposed on an employee
during fall arrest.
Deceleration distance:
The additional vertical distance a falling employee travels,
excluding lifeline elongation and free fall distance, before
stopping, from the point at which the deceleration device
begins to operate. It is measured as the distance between the
location of an employee's body belt or body harness attachment
point at the moment of activation (at the onset of fall arrest
forces) of the deceleration device during a fall, and the
location of that attachment point after the employee comes to
a full stop.
De-energize:
To free from any electric connection and/or electric charge.
Defect:
Any characteristic or condition which tends to weaken or
reduce the strength of the tool, object, or structure of which
it is a part.
Defendant:
The party, usually an employer or its insurance company,
opposing you in a dispute over benefits.
Delay letter:
A letter sent to you by the insurance company explaining why
payments are delayed.
Denied claim:
A claim in which the insurance company does not believe that
your injury or illness was work related and therefore denies
your claim.
Disability:
A physical or mental impairment that limits everyday
activities.
Disability management:
A process to prevent disability from occurring or to intervene
early and encourage and support continued employment.
Disability rating: See permanent disability rating.
Discrimination claim:
A petition filed if your employer has fired or discriminated
against you for filing a workers' compensation claim.
Dispute:
A disagreement about your right to payments, services or other
benefits.
De bene esse:
Of formal sufficiency for the time being; conditionally;
provisionally.
Deposition:
Sworn testimony taken under oath prior to trial before a court
reporter in a place away from the courtroom.
Direct examination:
The first questioning of a witness during a trial or
deposition.
Direct Supervision:
Where the supervising worker is present at the jobsite and
fully cognizant and in control of the activities of the less
experienced workers.
Disabling injury:
An injury causing death, permanent disability, or any degree
of temporary total disability beyond the day of the injury.
Disaster:
Any real or anticipated occurrence which endangers the lies,
safety, welfare and well-being of some or all of the people
and cannot be brought under control by the use of all regular
Municipal Government services and resources.
Due Diligence:
The level of judgment, care, prudence, determination, and
activity that a person would reasonably be expected to do
under particular circumstances.
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