Employees State Insurance Act, 1948
THE THIRD SCHEDULE
1[THE THIRD SCHEDULE
(See section 52A)
LIST OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
No.1 | Occupational disease | Employment |
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 |
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 organphosphorus compounds. | All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
PART B
1. | Diseases caused by phosphorus or its toxic | All work involving exposure to the compounds 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 of 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 action of radioactive substances or ionising radiations. |
16. | Diseases caused by beryllium or its toxic compounds | All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
17. | Diseases caused bycadmium or its toxic compounds | All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
18. | Occupational asthama 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 nitro-glycerine 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 action of radioactive substances or ionising radiations. |
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 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, 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 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. |
Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948