Longshoreman Injured at the
Port of New York City & Port of New Jersey

Scheduled Award

A scheduled award is for injuries to certain body parts, for example the feet, the hands, the arms, the legs or the eyes. If you have an injury only to one of those affected areas, you are entitled to receive temporary total or temporary partial disability benefits up until the point you reach medical stability called maximum medical improvement. Upon that date, Section 8(c)of the Longshore Act provides that you are then entitled to a certain number of weeks of benefits based upon the body part injured and in accordance with the chart below.

Scheduled Award Benefits:

1. Arm lost, three hundred and twelve weeks’ compensation.
2. Leg lost, two hundred and eighty-eight weeks’ compensation.
3. Hand lost, two hundred and forty-four weeks’ compensation.
4. Foot lost, two hundred and five weeks’ compensation.
5. Eye lost, one hundred and sixty weeks’ compensation.
6. Thumb lost, seventy-five weeks’ compensation.
7. First finger lost, forty-six weeks’ compensation.
8. Great toe lost, thirty-eight weeks’ compensation.
9. Second finger lost, thirty weeks’ compensation.
10. Third finger lost, twenty-five weeks’ compensation.
11. Toe other than great toe lost, sixteen weeks’ compensation.
12. Fourth finger lost, fifteen weeks’ compensation.
13. Loss of hearing:
    1. Compensation for loss of hearing in one ear, fifty-two weeks.
    2. Compensation for loss of hearing in both ears, two-hundred weeks.