Box L.3: Prescribed degrees of disablement

Description of injury	Degree
Loss of both hands or amputation at higher sites	100%
Loss of a hand and a foot	100%
Double amputation through leg or thigh, or amputation through leg or thigh on one side and loss of other foot	100%
Loss of sight to such an extent as to render the claimant unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential	100%
Very severe facial disfiguration	100%
Absolute deafness	100%
Forequarter or hindquarter amputation	100%
AMPUTATION CASES
Upper limbs (either arm)
Amputation through shoulder joint	90%
Amputation below shoulder with stump less than 20.5 centimetres from tip of acromion	80%
Amputation from 20.5 centimetres from tip of acromion to less than 11.5 centimetres below tip of olecranon	70%
Loss of a hand or of the thumb and four fingers of one hand or amputation from 11.5 centimetres below tip of olecranon	60%
Loss of thumb	30%
Loss of thumb and its metacarpal bone	40%
Loss of four fingers of one hand	50%
Loss of three fingers of one

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