Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01332:reg:8a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01332
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8A
Character Range: 110891–114068

8A

The functional impairment rating for the right upper limb, obtained in Step 6, is to be apportioned into two or three parts, as appropriate, by applying Chapter 20 (Apportionment).  The parts are:
+ one part corresponding to the impairment due to amputations
  affecting the right upper limb;
+ one part corresponding to the impairment due to dislocation of the right shoulder;
+ one part corresponding to the impairment (if any) of the right upper limb due to all causes other than dislocation of shoulder and amputations.

    Other Impairment Table 3.1.3

AMPUTATIONS OF FINGERS AND THUMB

      Impairment
      Ratings Criteria

      NIL  No amputation of fingers or thumb. TWO Amputation of little finger of one hand. FIVE              Amputation of ring finger of one hand.

      TEN

      FIFTEEN

      TWENTY

      TWENTY-
      FIVE

      THIRTY

      THIRTY-
      FIVE

FORTY

      FORTY-
      FIVE

               One rating may be given from this table for each side, as applicable.

No age adjustment permitted for this table

Other Impairment Table 3.1.4

       Impairment

AMPUTATIONS OF UPPER LIMB
      Ratings Criteria
NIL  No amputations involving the upper limb.
   * Mid-carpal amputation of one hand.
                   * Mid-metacarpal amputation of one hand.
                   * Disarticulation at wrist joint.
                   * Amputation of forearm distal to biceps tendon
                 insertion.
   * Amputation of forearm proximal to biceps tendon insertion.
                   * Disarticulation at elbow.
                   * Amputation between deltoid insertion and elbow.
                   * Amputation above deltoid insertion.
                   * Disarticulation at shoulder.

      SEVENTY Forequarter amputation.

 No age adjustment permitted for this table

One rating may be given from this table for each upper limb, as applicable.

Other Impairment Table 3.1.5

    Impairment

DISLOCATION OF SHOULDER
      Ratings Criteria

   * No recurrent dislocation of shoulder.
                   * Dislocation of shoulder on a single occasion.
TWO Recurrent dislocation of shoulder surgically corrected.
FIVE Recurrent dislocation of shoulder not surgically corrected.

               TEN Dislocation of shoulder resulting in prophylactic restriction of movement.

               Only one rating is to be selected from this table for each shoulder.
No age adjustment permitted for this                table

    Substep Compare the apportioned functional impairment rating corresponding
     8B to the impairment due to amputations affecting the right upper limb
             (obtained in substep 8A) with the Other Impairment rating from either
Table 3.1.3 or Table 3.1.4 (obtained in Step 7). The higher of these two ratings is to be selected.

    Substep Compare the apportioned functional impairment rating corresponding
     8C to the impairment due to dislocations of the right shoulder (obtained in
             substep 8A) with the Other Impairment rating from Table 3.1.5 (obtained
             in Step 7). The higher of these two ratings is to be selected.

    Substep