FREQUENCY & SEVERITY RATES

Scenario
• Workers – 2, 851

• Employees man-hours = 3, 281, 667

• Fatalities = 5

• 3 cases (one ear, complete loss of hearing)

• 6 cases (amputation, ring finger, proximal phalange

• 8 cases (sprain, day of injury = April 11, 2023; day given the clearance to return to work =
April 20, 2023. National Holidays: April 14, Maundy Thursday; April 15, good Friday)

• 2 cases of amputation involving index finger, proximal phalange (day of injury = June 14,
2023; day given the clearance to return to work = June 15, 2023.

• Involving 1 worker with amputation of:

- Ring finger (distal phalange)

- Little finger (distal phalange)
- Day of injury = August 16, 2023, Day given clearance to work = August 24, 2023.

Frequency Rate
FR = number of injury/illness x 1,000,000

Employees-hours of Exposure

FR = (5 + 3 + 6 + 8 + 2 + 1) x 1,000,000

3,281,667

FR = 25 x 1,000,000

3,281,667

FR = 7.618

Severity Rate

SR= Total day lost x 1,000,000

Employees-hours of Exposure

SR= (5x6000) +(3x600) +(6x240) +(8x9) +(2x400) +(1x60) +(1x50) x 1,000,000

3,281,667
 SR= (30,000 +1,800 +1440 +72 +800 +60+50) x 1,000,000

3,281,667

SR= 34,222x 1,000,000

3,281,667

SR= 10,428.236

Tabulation of Severity Rate

No. of Type of Day
Detail of Disability Day Lost Total
Cases Disability Charge

5 Fatality Death 6000 30,000

3 One Ear, Complete Loss of PPD 600 1,800

Hearing

6 Amputation (Ring Finger, PPD 240 1,440

Proximal Phalange)

8 Sprain TTD 9 72

2 Amputation (Index Finger, PPD 400 800

Proximal Phalange)

1 Amputation (Ring Finger, PPD 60 60

Distal Phalange)

Amputation (Little Finger, PPD 50 50

Distal Phalange)

Total=25 Total=34,222