Second Schedule SECOND SCHEDULESupplementary
[Section 5] OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury 1. Poisoning by: Any occupation involving— (a) Lead or compound of lead the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of lead or a compound of lead or a substance containing lead (b) Phosphorus the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of phosphorus or a compound of phosphorus or a substance containing phosphorus (c) Arsenic the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of arsenic or a compound of arsenic or a substance containing arsenic or exposure to any solution containing arsenic or a compound of arsenic (d) Mercury the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of mercury or a compound of mercury or a substance containing mercury (e) Carbon bisulphide the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes or vapour of carbon bisulphide or a compound of carbon bisulphide or a substance containing carbon bisulphide (f) Benzene or a homologue the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes of, or vapour containing, benzene or any of its homologues and their amino and nitroderivatives Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury (g) Manganese the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of manganese or a compound of manganese or a substance containing manganese (h) Beryllium the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of beryllium or a compound of beryllium or a substance containing beryllium (i) Cadmium the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of cadmium or a compound of cadmium or a substance containing cadmium (j) Antimony the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of antimony or a substance containing antimony (k) Fluorine the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of fluorine or a compound of fluorine or a substance containing fluorine (l) Nickel the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of nickel or a compound of nickel or a substance containing nickel (m) Chromium the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of chromium or a compound of chromium or a substance containing chromium (n) Organochlorine, the use or handling of organochlorine, organophosphate, organophosphate, carbamate, carbamate, nitrophenol, nitrophenol, pentachlorophenol, pentachlorophenol, dimethyldithiocarbamate or dimethyldithiocarbamate compounds of chlorophenoxy and or compounds of dipyridyl for the destruction of pests chlorophenoxy and or vermin dipyridyl Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury (o) Nitrous fumes the use or handling of nitric acid or exposure to nitrous fumes (p) Rengas wood the manipulation of rengas wood of any process in or incidental to the manufacture of articles therefrom (q) Hydrogen cyanide or the use or handling of, or exposure hydrogen sulphide to, the fumes or vapour of hydrogen gas cyanide or hydrogen sulphide (r) The halogen the production, liberation or use of derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series aliphatic or aromatic or aromatic series and their halogen hydrocarbons derivatives (s) Alcohols, glycols, the use or handling of, or exposure ketones or aldehydes to, the fumes or vapour of alcohols, glycols, ketones or aldehydes (t) Carbon monoxide the use or handling of, or exposure gas to, carbon monoxide gas, and any process involving the use of— (a) dynamite and gunpowder for blasting in subterranean galleries; (b) illuminating gas; (c) power or producer gas; (d) blast furnaces, furnaces and stoves for the burning of charcoal coke and other fuel; (e) gas engines (u) Carbon dioxide gas blasting, the manufacture of mineral waters, fermentation in breweries and the formation of lime in lime kilns (v) Diethylene dioxide the use or handling of, or exposure (dioxane) to, the fumes of or vapour containing diethylene dioxide 2. Anthrax Any occupation involving the handling of wool, hair, bristle, hides or skins or other animal products or residues, or contact with animals infected with anthrax Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury 3. Glanders Any occupation involving contact with equine animals or their carcasses 4. Leptospirosis Any occupation involving work in rat or other rodent infested places and any occupation involving the care or handling of dogs, cattle, swine and horses or any other infected animals 5. (a) Ulceration of the corneal Any occupation involving the use or surface of the eye handling of, or exposure to, tar, pitch, padi husk, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin), soot, organic dust or any compound, product, or residue of any of of these substances (b) Localized new growth of the skin, papillomatous or keratotic (c) Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of the skin, due in any case to tar, pitch, padi husk, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin), soot or any compound, product, or residue of any of these substances 6. Chrome ulceration Any occupation involving the use or handling of chromic acid, chromate or bichromate of ammonium, potassium, zinc or sodium or any preparation or solution containing any of these substances 7. Inflammation, ulceration or Any occupation involving exposure malignant diseases of the skin to X-rays, ionizing particles, radium, or subcutaneous tissues or of or other radio-active substances or the bones, or leukaemia other forms of radiant energy or anaemia of the aplastic type, due to X-ray, ionizing particles, radium or other radioactive substances or other forms of radiant energy Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury 8. Toxic jaundice Any occupation involving the use or handling of halogenated hydrocarbon or nitric or amidoderivatives of benzene or other poisonous substances 9. Heat radiation cataract Any occupation involving frequent or prolonged exposure to the glare of, or rays from, molten glass or molten or red-hot metal or frequent or prolonged exposure to radiation 10. Subcutaneous cellulitis or Any occupation involving manual acute bursitis arising at or labour causing severe or prolonged about the knee (Beat knee) friction or pressure at or about the knee 11. Subcutaneous cellulitis Any occupation involving manual of the hand (Beat hand) labour causing severe or prolonged friction or pressure on the hand 12. Subcutaneous cellulitis or Any occupation involving manual labour acute bursitis arising at or causing severe or prolonged friction about the elbow (Beat elbow) or pressure at or about the elbow 13. Inflammation of the Any occupation involving manual labour synovial lining of the wrist or frequent or repeated movement of the joint and tendon sheaths hand or wrist 14. Heat cramp or heat stroke Any occupation involving excessive exposure to heat 15. Cramp of the hand or Any occupation involving prolonged forearm due to repetitive periods of hand writing, typing or other movements repetitive movements of the fingers, hand or arm 16. Compressed air illness or its Any occupation or process carried sequelae on in compressed-air or under water 17. (a) Tuberculosis or leprosy Any occupation involving close or frequent contact with a source or sources of tuberculosis or leprosy infection by reason of employment— (a) in the medical treatment or nursing of a person or persons suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy or in a service ancillary to such treatment or nursing; Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury (b) in attendance upon a person or persons suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy where the need for such attendance arises by reason of physical or mental infirmity; (c) as a research worker engaged in research in connection with tuberculosis or leprosy; or (d) as a laboratory worker, pathologist or post-mortem worker, where the occupation involves working with material which is a source of tuberculosis or leprosy infection or in any occupation ancillary to such employment (b) Viral hepatitis Any occupation involving— (a) close and frequent contact with human blood or human blood products; or (b) close and frequent contact with a source of viral hepatitis infection by reason of employment in the medical treatment or nursing of a person or persons suffering from viral hepatitis, or in a service ancillary to such treatment or nursing 18. Hearing impairment caused Any occupation involving excessive by noise exposure to industrial noise of high sound pressure level in excess of 85 decibels over 8-hour period 19. Occupational dermatitis Any occupation involving the handling of mineral oils, acids, alkalis, dusts or any other external agents capable of irritating the skin 20. Diseases caused by vibration Any occupation involving subjection (disorders of muscles, to vibration tendons, bones, joints, peripheral blood vessels or nerves) Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury 21. Lung cancer or Any occupation involving the mining, mesothelioma caused processing or handling of materials by asbestos containing asbestos 22. Broncho pulmonary disease Any occupation involving the substantial exposure to the inhalation of hard-metal dust, cotton dust, flax or hemp or sisal dust 23. Pulmonary irritation Any occupation involving the inhalation of sulphur oxides, chlorine, phosgene, ammonia, bromine, ozone, or nitrogen dioxide 24. Occupational asthma Any occupation involving the exposure caused by sensitizing to the inhalation of mineral dusts such agents or irritants as cement, copper, zinc, animal dusts, such as bone or hair, or dusts of plant origin such as cotton, wood, flax, jute, padi husks, cork, spices, hemp, sisal, tobacco, tea, flour or gases or vapours of toluene diisocyanate or formaldehyde 25. Pneumoconiosis (silicosis, Any occupation involving— asbestosis, anthracosilicosis, stannosis, siderosis or (a) the mining, quarrying or working siderosilicosis) of silica rock or the working of dried quartzose sand or any dry admixture containing such materials; (b) the handling of any of the materials specified in subparagraph (a) in or incidental to any of the operations mentioned therein or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations; (c) the breaking, crushing or grinding of flint or the working or handling of broken, crushed or ground flint or materials containing such flint or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations; Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury (d) sand blasting by means of compressed air with the use of quartzose sand or crushed silica rock or flint or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such sand blasting; (e) the grinding of mineral graphite, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such grinding; (f) work in a foundry or the performance of, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from, any of the following operations: (i) the freeing of steel castings from adherent siliceous substance; (ii) the freeing of metal castings from adherent siliceous substance; (g) the manufacture of china or earthenware (including sanitary earthenware, electrical earthenware tiles), and anyoccupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom; (h) the dressing of granite or any igneous rock by masons or the crushing of such materials or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations; (i) the use, or preparation for use, of a grindstone or substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom; (j) boiler scaling or substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom; Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury (k) the working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos, or the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing asbestos, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations; (l) work in any mine (underground or above ground) in which one of the objects of the mining operations is the getting of any mineral, or the working or handling of any minerals extracted therefrom, or any operation incidental thereto; (m) the manufacture of carbon electrodes for use in the electrolytic extraction of aluminium oxide, and any occupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom; (n) exposure to the inhalation of dust containing iron and silica or haematite; (o) exposure to the inhalation of tin dust or fumes 26. Cancer caused by— Any occupation involving— (a) 4-aminobiphenyl the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of 4 aminobiphenyl or a substance containing 4-aminobiphenyl (b) Arsenic the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of arsenic or a substance containing arsenic (c) Benzene the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of benzene or a substance containing benzene Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury (d) Benzidine the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of benzidine or a substance containing benzidine (e) Bis-chloro methyl ether the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of bischloro methyl ether or a substance containing bis-chloro methyl ether (f) Chromium the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of chromium or a substance containing chromium (g) Haematite the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of haematite or a substance containing haematite (h) Mustard gas the use or handling of, or exposure to, mustard gas or a substance containing mustard gas (i) B-naphthylamine the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of B-napthylamine or a substance containing B-napthylamine (j) Nickel the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of nickel or a substance containing nickel (k) Soots, tars and oils the use or handling of, or exposure to, soots, tars and oils (l) Vinyl chloride the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of vinyl chloride or a substance containing vinyl chloride (m) Particulate polycyclic the use or handling of, or exposure aromatic hydrocarbon to, the fumes, dust or vapour of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon or a substance containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (n) Acrylonitrile the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of acrylonitrile or a substance containing acrylonitrile Description of occupational Nature of occupation diseases or injury (o) 1, 2-dibromoethane the use or handling of, or exposure to (ethylene dibromide) the fumes, dust or vapour of ethylene dibromide or a substance containing dibromide (p) Wood dust the use or handling of, or exposure to, wood dust arising from the manufacture of wood products (q) Benz-o-pyrene the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of benz-o pyrene or a substance containing benz-o-pyrene (r) Formaldehyde the use or handling of, or exposure to, the gas of formaldehyde 27. Fibrotic disease of the lung Any occupation involving— caused by— (a) talc the use or handling of, or exposure to, dust of talc or a substance containingtalc (b) aluminium the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of aluminium or a substance containing aluminium (c) coal the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapour of coal or a substance containing coal (d) padi husk the use or handling of, or exposure to, padi husk or dust or a substance containing padi husk