LIST OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
Serial
No
Occupational disease Employment
(1) (2) (3)
PART A
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
organophosphoruscompounds. 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.
1. Subs. by Act 22 of 1984, s. 6 for Sch. (w.e.f.1-7-1984).
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Serial
No
Occupational disease Employment
(1) (2) (3)
8. Primary epitheliomatous 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 carbon disulphide. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
11. Occupational cataract due to infra-red
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 a
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
recognized sensitising agents inherent
to the work process.
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
19. Diseases caused by fluorine 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
ketones.
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
22. Diseases caused by asphyxiants: carbon
monoxide, and its toxic derivatives,
hydrogen sulfide.
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
23. Lung cancer and mesotheliomas caused by
asbestos.
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
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Occupational disease Employment
(1) (2) (3)
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.
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[25. Snow blindness in snow bound areas. All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
26. Disease due to effect of heat in extreme hot
climate.
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.
27. Disease due to effect of cold in extreme
cold climate.
All work involving exposure to the risk
concerned.]
PART C
1. Pneumoconioses caused by sclerogenic
mineral dust (silicoses, anthraoo-silicosis,
asbestosis) and silico-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
(Byssionsis),
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.