If disability is anticipated at the time of injury, the employee may elect to use leave or COP (which is discussed in Chapter 5) on Form CA-1. An employee who cannot return to work when COP terminates, or who is not entitled to receive COP, may claim compensation for wage loss on Form CA-7.
It is also used as a lubricant and a cutting fluid. Light mineral oil is also used in textile industries and used as a jute batching oil. An often cited limitation of mineral oil is that it is poorly biodegradable; in some applications, vegetable oils such as cottonseed oil or rapeseed oil may be used instead.aby oil is a perfumed mineral oil. Most often, mineral oil is a liquid by-product of refining crude oil to make gasoline and other petroleum products. This type of mineral oil is a transparent, colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes and cycloalkanes, related to petroleum jelly.
Mineral oil is used in all old R12 (Freon) systems. It has worked well for years and would be the recommended lubricant for all R12 applications. R12 has a high affinity for mineral oil, meaning it takes mineral with it as it travels through the system. Mineral oil does not mix with R134a and there for not usable. Also sense its compatible with all R12/R134a compressors it could be used in a R12 system that may be retrofitted latter. 2  They recommend that you put 1/2 of the oil in the compressor and the other 1/2 in the accumulator or evaporator if it does not have an accumulator.