Meaning & use
industrial injury
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Meaning
nouncountableBritishlegal
A physical harm suffered by a worker because of their job or the conditions in which they do it.
Grammar: Takes a plural: several industrial injuries; used with 'suffer', 'claim' or 'compensation for'.
Patterns
- suffer an industrial injury
- industrial injury at a place
He received weekly payments after an industrial injury to his back.
Employers must report any serious industrial injury to the authorities.
She made a claim for compensation after an industrial injury at the plant.
Word forms
| plural | industrial injuries |
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Common combinations
- suffer an industrial injury
- Several workers suffer an industrial injury each year at the quarry.
- industrial injury benefit
- The industrial injury benefit helped him pay his bills.
- industrial injury claim
- The union supported her industrial injury claim.
- prevent industrial injury
- Better training helps prevent industrial injury.
- report an industrial injury
- Managers must report an industrial injury within days.
Synonyms and how they differ
- workplace injury
- Workplace injury is the more everyday and American phrase, while 'industrial injury' sounds official and is tied to benefit systems.
- occupational injury
- Occupational injury is common in health and safety writing and covers any job, not just factories.
- accident at work
- This describes the event itself rather than the harm done to the worker.
Word family
- industry noun
- manufacturing and other organized economic activity
- industrial adjective
- relating to industry
- injure verb
- to hurt or harm someone physically
- injured adjective
- hurt or harmed
Commonly confused: industrial injury or industrious?
industrial injury vs industrious
Industrious means hard-working, and has nothing to do with industry as a sector. Industrial means relating to industry.
Practice
A factory employee hurt his hand on a machine at work. The compensation he may claim is for an ___.
Choose one answer.
'Industrial injury' is the standard term for harm caused by work. 'Industrious' means hard-working, and the other options are not real phrases.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “industrial injury”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.