A-3 - Workers’ Compensation Act

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SCHEDULE D

(Section 124)
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| OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES |
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| DESCRIPTION OF DISEASES | DESCRIPTION OF PROCESS |
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| (1) Infected blisters: | Any process involving continuous |
| | friction, rubbing or vibration. |
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| (2) Anthrax: | Handling of wool, hair, bristles, |
| | hides and skins. |
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| (3) Brucellosis: | Care, slaughtering, cutting, |
| | transport of slaughter-house |
| | animals. Laboratory work of an |
| | employer subject to the Act. |
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| (4) Bursitis: | Any process involving continuous |
| | rubbing, pressure, irritation or |
| | vibration of the parts affected. |
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| (5) Dermatitis: | |
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| (6) Poisoning or its | |
| sequelae: | |
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| (a) Arsenic: | Any process involving the use of |
| | arsenic or its preparations or |
| | compounds. |
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| (b) Benzol: | Any process involving the use of |
| | benzol. |
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| (c) Cadmium: | Any process involving the use of |
| | cadmium or its preparations or |
| | compounds. |
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| (d) Chrome: | Any process involving the use of |
| | chromium or its compounds. |
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| (e) Brass, nickel, zinc: | Any process involving the use of |
| | nickel or brass, or melting or |
| | smelting of zinc. |
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| (f) Chlorinated | Any process in the manufacture or |
| hydrocarbons, | involving the use of these |
| Carbon | substances. |
| tetrachloride, | |
| Trichlorethylene, | |
| Tetrachlorethane, | |
| Trichloronaphtalene | |
| and others: | |
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| (g) Mercury: | Any process involving the use of |
| | mercury or its preparations or |
| | compounds. |
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| (h) Nitro- and amino- | Handling any nitro- or |
| derivatives of | amino-derivates of benzene or |
| benzene, phenol and | phenol or any of their |
| their homologues | homologues, or any process in the |
| (trinitrotoluene, | manufacture or involving the use |
| dinitrophenol, | thereof. |
| anilin and others): | |
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| (i) Carbon monoxide: | Any process involving the |
| | emanation of carbon monoxide. |
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| (j) Phosphorus: | Any process involving the use of |
| | phosphorus or its preparations |
| | or compounds. |
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| (k) Lead: | Any process involving the use of |
| | lead or its preparations or |
| | compounds. |
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| (l) Nitrous fumes: | Any process in which nitrous |
| | fumes are evolved. |
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| (7) Compressed air illness | Any work carried on in |
| or caisson disease: | compressed air. |
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| (8) Diseases caused by | |
| exposure to X-Rays or | |
| radium or other | |
| radio-active substances: | |
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| (9) Pneumoconiosis | Mining, quarrying, cutting, |
| (Silicosis and | crushing, grinding or polishing |
| asbestosis): | of stone. Smelting, grinding or |
| | polishing of metal. Pottery. |
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| (10) Retinitis: | Electro-welding or acetylene |
| | welding. |
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| (11) Tenosynovitis: | |
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| (12) Deafness: | Any process involving exposure |
| | to levels of excessive noise. |
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R. S. 1964, c. 159, Schedule III; 1978, c. 57, s. 72.