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Most of us know that the ESI provides immense benefits to employees. However, in order to ensure that those benefits reaches the employee in need, we need to know the basics of coverage and the benefits and employment injuries. This is an endeavor to compile key perspectives of laws on Employment  Injuries, as defined by the ESI Manual. Employment Injury  Employment Injury is defined in Section 2(8) of the Act as under : - “Employment Injury means a personal injury to an employee caused by an accident or an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his employment, being an insurable employment, whether the accident occurs or the occupational disease is contracted within or outside the territorial limits of India.” This require three important aspects to be eligible for the disablement benefits/terminal benefits - - Injury should be caused by an accident or an occupational disease - Such injury/disease ought to have arising out of an din the course of empl