SCHEDULE – III
(See section 3)
LIST OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
S. 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 contracted in an occupation 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 organo phosphorus 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 benzine 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 or radiations. | All work involving exposure to the substances and ionising action of radioactive ionising radiations. | |
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 | Disease 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 recognised 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. | |
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. | |
25 | Snow blindness in snow bound areas. | All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. | |
26 | Disease due to effect of cold in extreme cold 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 (silicosis, anthraoosilicosis, 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 (Byssinosis). | All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. | |
4 | Extrinsic allergic alveelitiscaused 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. | |
6 | Acute Pulmonary Oedema of High Altitude. | All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |