Report No. 62
Third Schedule
(See section 3)
List of Occupational Diseases
Occupational disease |
Employment |
PART A |
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| 1. Anthrax. | Any employment:- |
| (a) involving the handing of wool, hair, bristles or animal carcases, or parts of such carcases, including hides, hoofs and horns; or | |
| (b) in connection with animals infected with anthrax; or | |
| (c) involving the loading, unloading or transport of any merchandise | |
| 2. Compressed air illness or any disease cause thereby in the particular case. | Any process carried on in compressed air. |
| 3. Poisoning by lead tetra-ethyl. | Any process involving the use of lead tetraethy l. |
| 4. Poising by nitrous fumes | Any process involving exposure to nitrous fumes. |
| 5. Poisoning by organic phosphorus, insecticides. | Any process involving the use or handling or exposure to the fumes, dust or vapour containing any of the organic phosphorus insecticides. |
PART B |
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| 1. Occupational Cataract due to infra red radiations. | Any manufacturing process involving exposure to glare from molten material or to any other sources of infra-red radiations. |
| 2. Chrome ulceration or any disease caused thereby in the particular case. | Any process involving the use of chromic acid or bichromate of ammonium potassium or sodium, or their preparations or the manufacture of bio-chromate. |
| 3. Pathological manifestations due to: | Any process involving exposure to the action of radium radioactive substances. |
| (a) radium and other radioactive substances; | or X-rays. |
| (b) X-rays. | |
| 4. Primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin. | Any process involving the handling or use of tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral of paraffin, or the compounds products or residues of these substance. |
| 5. Telegraphist's Cramp. | Any employment involving the use of telegraphic instruments. |
| 6. Poisoning by arsenic or its compounds, or any disease caused thereby in the particular case. | Any process involving the production liberation, or utilisation of arsenic or its compounds. |
| 7. Poisoning by benzene, or its homolo gues, their amido and nitro derivatives or any disease caused thereby in the particular case. | Any process involving the manufacture, liberation, or use of benzene, homologues and their amido and nitroderivatives. |
| 8. Poisoning by carbon disulphide or any disease caused thereby in the particular case. | Any employment in:- |
| (a) the manufacture of carbon di-sulphide; | |
| or | |
| (b) the manufacture of artificial silk by viscose process; or | |
| (c) rubber industry; or | |
| (d) any other industry involving the production or use of products containing carbon disulphide or exposure to emanations from carbon disulphide. | |
| 9. Poisoning by halogenated hydro carbons of the aliphatic series and their halogen derivatives. | Any process involving the manufacture liberation and use of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series and their halogen derivatives |
| 10. Poisoning by lead, its alloys or compounds or any disease caused thereby in the particular case excluding poisoning by lead tetra-ethyl. | Any process involving the handling or use of lead are of lead or any of its preparations or compounds except lead tetra-ethyl. |
| 11. Poisoning by manganese or a compound of manganese, or any disease caused thereby in the particular case. | Any process involving the use of, or exposure to the fumes, dust or vapour of, manganese or a compound of manganese, or a substance containing manganese. |
| 12. Poisoning by mercury, its amalgams or and compounds, or any disease caused thereby in the particular case. | Any process involving the use of mercury its preparation or compounds. |
| 13. Poisoning by phosphorus or its compounds, or any disease caused thereby in the particular case. | Any process involving the liberation of phosphorus or use or handling of phosphorus or its preparations or compounds. |
PART C |
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| 1. Asbestosis | Any employment in:- |
| (1) the production of: | |
| (i) fibre cement materials; or | |
| (ii) asbestos mill board; or | |
| 2. Bagassosis | Any employment in the production of bagasse mill board or other articles from bagasse. |
| 3. Coal Minar's Pneumoconiosis. | Any employment in coal mining. |
| 4. Silicosia | Any employment involving exposure to the inhalation of dust containing silica. |
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