What is the rating for a 40 year old forester with an elbow injury resulting in loss of motion and a 50% upper extremity impairment?

What is the rating for a 40 year old forester with an elbow injury resulting in loss of motion and a 50% upper extremity impairment?

• A. 25%
• B. 28%
• C. 31%
• D. 40%

Answer: (C)

In California SIP, the permanent disability rating turns impairment into PD by applying an age modifier from the permanent disability rating schedule. Here, the elbow injury yields 50% impairment of the upper extremity. For a 40-year-old, the age multiplier is 0.62. Multiplying 50% by 0.62 gives 31% permanent disability. So the PD rating is 31%, which matches the correct result. The other numbers would come from using different multipliers, but the schedule assigns 0.62 for a 40-year-old in this scenario.

In California SIP, the permanent disability rating turns impairment into PD by applying an age modifier from the permanent disability rating schedule. Here, the elbow injury yields 50% impairment of the upper extremity. For a 40-year-old, the age multiplier is 0.62. Multiplying 50% by 0.62 gives 31% permanent disability. So the PD rating is 31%, which matches the correct result. The other numbers would come from using different multipliers, but the schedule assigns 0.62 for a 40-year-old in this scenario.