ESI Act
(See Section 52-A)
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Occupational disease |
Employment |
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PART A |
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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, 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. |
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Diseases caused by work in compressed air. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned |
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Diseases caused by lead or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned |
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Poisoning by nitrous fumes. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned |
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Poisoning by organophosphorus compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned |
PART B
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Diseases caused by phosphorus or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned |
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Diseases caused by mercury or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned |
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Diseases caused by benzene or its toxic homologues. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned |
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Diseases caused by nitro and amido toxic derivatives of benzene or its homologues. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by chromium or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by arsenic or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by radioactive substances and ionising radiations. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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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. |
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Diseases caused by he toxic halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons (of the aliphatic and aromatic series). |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by carbon disulphide. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Occupational cataract due to infra-red radiations. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by manganese or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Skin diseases caused by physical, chemical or biological agents not included in other items. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Heating impairment caused by noise. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Poisoning by dinitrophenol or a homologue or by substituted dinitrophenol or by the slats of such substances. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by beryllium or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by fluorine or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Occupational asthma caused by recognised sensitising agents inherent to the work process, |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by fluorine or its toxic compounds. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by nitroglycerine or other itroacid esters. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by alcohols and ketones. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Diseases caused by asphyxiants: carbon monoxide, and its toxic derivatives, hydrogen sulfide. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Lung cancer and mesotheliomas caused by asbestos. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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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 |
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Pneumoconioses caused by sclerogenic mineral dust (silicosis, anthraoosilicosis asbestosis) and silico-tuberculosis provided that silicosis is an essential factory in causing the resultant incapacity or death. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Bagassosis, |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by cotton, flax, hemp and sisal dust (Byssinosos) |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Extrinsic allergic alvoelitis caused by the inhalation of organic dusts. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |
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Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by hard metals. |
All work involving exposure to the risk concerned. |