THE THIRD SCHEDULE
[See section 52A]
LIST OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
Sl. No. | Occupational disease | Employment |
1 | 2 | 3 |
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]. |