Mechanical injury definition

Mechanical injury means injury done to a plant by abiotic causes or physical damage that leads to deviation from normal growth such as, but not limited to, injury caused by equipment, chemicals, cold, lightning, water stress, wind, or hail.
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Mechanical injury. - means a noninfectious injury which often leads to poor growth, a damaged appearance or death to the tree. Common causes of mechanical injury are landscape maintenance equipment, staking damage, vehicles, vandalism, weather, insects and animals.
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Related to Mechanical injury

  • Physical injury means damage to any bodily tissue to the extent that the tissue must undergo a healing process in order to be restored to a sound and healthy condition, or damage to any bodily tissue to the extent that the tissue cannot be restored to a sound and healthy condition, or damage to any bodily tissue which results in the death of the person who has sustained the damage.

  • Accidental Injury means an Injury sustained as a result of an external force or forces that is/are sudden, direct and unforeseen and is/are exact as to time and place. A hernia of any kind will only be considered as an Illness.

  • Traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a student’s educational performance. The term includes open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as, cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, problem solving, sensory, perceptual and motor abilities, psychological behavior, physical functions, information processing and speech. The term does not include brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative or to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.