This phrase is found in most of the excerpted sections of the booklet. In your telephone conversation with Mr. Dillard, you stated that your injured employee now spends 100 percent of his time sitting, rather than the normal 33 percent, a situation you stated was due to an injury. This situation, in our opinion, is a restriction of work activity, and falls within the guidelines that were excerpted from the BLS Guidelines booklet. The OSHA regulations provide little guidance on this matter, and the Bureau of Labor of Statistics Recordkeeping Guidelines do not precisely cover this situation. Each of these two job categories consists of a number of different tasks or jobs, and individual employees are frequently and routinely shifted from one task to another within the same job category.
All employees working within the same job category earn the same wage.
The company accommodates employees who experience slight injuries on the job by permitting them to shift to other positions within their job category. Job Category A employee is currently performing a Category A job function which he would normally perform standing up. He suffers a slight ankle sprain on the job. There are several tasks in Job Category A that can be performed while sitting down. The injured employee occasionallY performs these tasks as part of his overall job functions.