Arkansas Code
of 1987 Annotated Official Edition
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Title 11 Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 9 Workers' Compensation
Subchapter 5 -- Accidental Injury or Death
A.C.A. § 11-9-521 (2010)
11-9-521. Compensation for disability --
Scheduled permanent injuries.
(a) An employee who sustains a
permanent compensable injury scheduled in this section shall
receive, in addition to compensation for temporary total and
temporary partial benefits during the healing period or until
the employee returns to work, whichever occurs first, weekly
benefits in the amount of the permanent partial disability rate
attributable to the injury, for that period of time set out in
the following schedule:
(1) Arm amputated
at the elbow, or between the elbow and shoulder, two hundred
forty-four (244) weeks;
(2) Arm amputated
between the elbow and wrist, one hundred eighty-three (183)
weeks;
(3) Leg amputated
at the knee, or between the knee and the hip, one hundred
eighty-four (184) weeks;
(4) Leg amputated
between the knee and the ankle, one hundred thirty-one (131)
weeks;
(5) Hand
amputated, one hundred eighty-three (183) weeks;
(6) Thumb
amputated, seventy-three (73) weeks;
(7) First finger
amputated, forty-three (43) weeks;
(8) Second finger
amputated, thirty-seven (37) weeks;
(9) Third finger
amputated, twenty-four (24) weeks;
(10) Fourth finger
amputated, nineteen (19) weeks;
(11) Foot
amputated, one hundred thirty-one (131) weeks;
(12) Great toe
amputated, thirty-two (32) weeks;
(13) Toe other
than great toe amputated, eleven (11) weeks;
(14) Eye
enucleated, in which there was useful vision, one hundred five
(105) weeks;
(15) Loss of
hearing of one ear, forty-two (42) weeks;
(16) Loss of
hearing of both ears, one hundred fifty-eight (158) weeks;
(17) Loss of one
testicle, fifty-three (53) weeks; loss of both testicles, one
hundred fifty-eight (158) weeks.
(b) (1) Compensation
for amputation of the first phalange shall be one-half (1/2) of
the compensation for the amputation of the entire digit. . . .
(cont.)