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LIST OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

THE THIRD SCHEDULE

[See section 52A]

LIST OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES

Sl. No. Occupational disease Employment
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1. Infectious and parasitic diseases con­tracted in an occupation where there is a particular risk of contamination. (a) All work involving expo­sure to health or labo­ratory work;
(b) All work involving expo­sure to veterinary work;
(c) Work relating to hand­ling animals; animal car­casses, part of such car­casses, or merchandise which may have been contaminated by ani­mals or animal car­casses;
(d) Other work carrying a particular risk of contamination.
2. Diseases caused by work in com­pressed air. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
3. Diseases caused by lead or its toxic compounds. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
4. Poisoning by nitrous fumes. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
5. Poisoning by organophosphorus com­pounds. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
PART B
1. Diseases caused by phosphorus or its toxic compounds. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
2. Diseases caused by mercury or its toxic compounds All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
3. Diseases caused by benzene or its toxic homologues. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
4. Diseases caused by nitro and amido toxic derivatives of benzene or its ho­mologues. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
5. Diseases caused by chromium or its toxic compounds. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
6. Diseases caused by arsenic or its toxic compounds All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
7. Diseases caused by radioactive sub­stances and ionising radiations. All work involving exposure to the action of radioactive substances or ionising radiations.
8. Primary epithelomatous cancer of the skin caused by tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, anthracene, or the compounds, products or residues of these substances. All work involving exposure to the-risk concerned.
9. Diseases caused by the toxic halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons (of the aliphatic and aromatic series) All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
10. Diseases caused by the carbon disulphide. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
11. Occupational cataract due to infrared radiations. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
12. Diseases caused by manganese or its toxic compounds. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
13. Skin diseases caused by physical, chemical or biological agents not in­cluded in other items. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
14. Hearing impairment caused by noise. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
15. Poisoning by dinitrophenol or homologue or by substituted dinitrophenol or by the salts of such substances. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
16. Diseases caused by beryllium or its toxic compounds. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
17. Diseases caused by cadmium or its toxic compounds All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
18. Occupational asthma caused by recognised sensitising agents inherent to the work process. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
19. Diseases caused by flourine or its toxic compounds. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
20. Diseases caused by nitroglycerine or other nitroacid esters. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
21. Diseases caused by alcohols and ke-tones. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
22. Diseases caused by asphyxiants; car­bon monoxide and its toxic derivatives, hydrogen sulphide. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
23. Lung cancer and mesotheliomas caused by asbestos. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
24. Primary neoplasm of the epithelial lin­ing of the urinary bladder or the kid­ney or the ureter. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
PART C
1. Pneumoconioses caused /by sclerogenic mineral dust (silicosis, anthrao-osilicosis asbestoses) and silica-tuber­culosis provided that silicosis is an es­sential factor in causing the resultant incapacity or death. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
2. Bagassosis. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
3. Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by cotton, flax, hemp and sisal dust (Byssiriosis) All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
4. Extrinsic allergic alveelitis caused by the inhalation of organic dusts. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
5. Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by hard metals. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned].