injury
Defined in 3 places across 3 titles of the United States Code.
“injury” includes, in addition to injury by accident, a disease proximately caused by the employment, and damage to or destruction of medical braces, artificial limbs, and other prosthetic devices which shall be replaced or repaired, and such time lost while such device or appliance is being replaced or repaired; except that eyeglasses and hearing aids would not be replaced, repaired, or otherwise compensated for, unless the damages or destruction is incident to a personal injury requiring medical services;
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- 1994–present5 U.S.C. § 8101Government Organization and Employees · Definitions · in this section
the term “injury” means—
(A) physical harm to a natural person; and
(B) physical damage to or destruction of tangible property, but only if physical harm described in subparagraph (A) exists;
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- 2002–present28 U.S.C. § 1369Judiciary and Judicial Procedure · Multiparty, multiforum jurisdiction · for purposes of this section
The term “injury” means accidental injury or death arising out of and in the course of employment, and such occupational disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment or as naturally or unavoidably results from such accidental injury, and includes an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee because of his employment.
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- 1994–present33 U.S.C. § 902Navigation and Navigable Waters · Definitions · in this chapter