Appendix 3: Diseases and jobs covered by the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme
Diseases and jobs covered by the scheme
| Disease Number | Description of the disease | Type of job |
|---|---|---|
| any job involving | ||
| Pneumoconiosis. Includes silicosis and asbestosis. | (1) (a) The mining, quarrying or working of silica rock or the working of dried quartzose sand or any dry deposit or dry residue of silica or any dry admixture containing such materials (including any occupation in which any of the aforesaid operations are carried out incidentally to the mining or quarrying of other minerals or to the manufacture of articles containing crushed or ground silica rock); | |
| (b) the handling of any of the materials specified in the foregoing sub-paragraph in or incidental to any of the operations mentioned therein, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations. | ||
| (2) 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 any of such operations. | ||
| (3) 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. | ||
| (4) Work in a foundry or the performance of, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the following operations: | ||
| (a) the freeing of steel castings from adherent siliceous substance; | ||
| (b) the freeing of metal castings from adherent siliceous substance; | ||
| (i) by blasting with an abrasive propelled by compressed air, by steam or by a wheel; or | ||
| (ii) by the use of powerdriven tools. | ||
| (5) The manufacture of china or earthenware (including sanitary earthenware, electrical earthenware and earthenware tiles), and any occupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom. | ||
| (6) The grinding of mineral graphite, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such grinding. | ||
| (7) 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. | ||
| (8) The use, or preparations for use, of a grind-stone, or substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom. | ||
| (9) (a) The working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos; | ||
| (b) the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing or composed of asbestos; | ||
| (c) the cleaning of any machinery or plant used in any of the foregoing operations and of any chambers, fixtures and appliances for the collection of asbestos dust; | ||
| (d) substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations. | ||
| (10)(a) Work underground in any mine in which one of the objects of the mining operations is the getting of any mineral; | ||
| (b) the working or handling above ground at any coal or tin mine of any minerals extracted therefrom, or any operation incidental thereto; | ||
| (c) the trimming of coal in any ship, barge or lighter, or in any dock or harbour or at any wharf or quay; | ||
| (d) the sawing, splitting or dressing of slate, or any operation incidental thereto. | ||
| (11) The manufacture, or work incidental to the manufacture, of carbon electrodes by an industrial undertaking for use in the electrolytic extraction of aluminium from aluminium oxi and any occupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom. | ||
| (12) Boiler scaling or substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom. | ||
| (13) Exposure to dust if the person employed in it has never at any time worked in any of the other occupations listed. | ||
| Byssinosis | Work in any room where any process up to and including the weaving process is performed in a factory in which the spinning or manipulation of raw or waste cotton or of flax, or the weaving of cotton or flax, is carried on. | |
| 1 | Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of the skin due to tar, pitch, bitumen, tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin), or any compound, product, or residue of any of these substances. substances, including scrotal epithelioma (chimney sweep’s cancer) | The use or handling of, or exposure to, tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin), soot or any compound, product compound, or residue of any of these substances. |
| 2 | Inflammation, ulceration or malignant disease of the skin or subcutaneous tissue or of the bones or anaemia of aplastic type due to X-rays, radium or other radioactive substance. | Exposure to X-rays, radium or other radioactive substance. |
| 3(a) | Carcinoma of the mucous membrane of the nose or associated air sinuses. | Work in a factory where nickel is produced by decomposition of a gaseous nickel compound which necessitates working in or about a building or buildings where that process or any other industrial process ancillary or incidental thereto is carried on. |
| 3(b) | Primary carcinoma of a bronchus or of a lung. | |
| 4 | Primary neoplasm of the epithelial lining of the urinary bladder (papilloma of the bladder), or of the renal pelvis or of the ureter or of the urethra. | (a) Work in a building in which any of the following substances is produced for commercial purposes:(i) alpha-naphthylamine or betanaphthylamine; (ii) diphenyl substituted by at least one nitro or primary amino group or by at least one nitro and primary amino group; (iii) any of the substances mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii) above if further ring substituted by halogeno, methyl or methoxy groups but not by other groups; (iv) the salts of any of the substances mentioned in subparagraphs(i) to (iii) above; (v) auramine or magenta; |
| (b) the use or handling of any of the substances mentioned in subparagraphs (i) to (iv) of paragraph(a), or work in a process in which any such substance is used or handled or is liberated; | ||
| (c) the maintenance or cleaning of any plant or machinery used in any such process as is mentioned in paragraph(b), or the cleaning of clothing used in any such building as is mentioned in paragraph (a) if such clothing is cleaned within the works of which the building forms a part or in a laundry maintained and used solely in connection with such works; | ||
| (d) exposure to coal tar pitch volatiles produced in aluminium smelting involving the Soderberg process (that is to say the method of producing aluminium by electrolysis in which the anode consists of a paste of petroleum coke and mineral oil which is baked in situ). | ||
| 5 | Primary malignant neoplasm of the mesothelium (diffuse mesothelioma) of the pleura or of the peritoneum. | Exposure to asbestos, asbestos dust or any admixture of asbestos at a level above that commonly found in the environment at large. |
| 6 | Adeno-carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses. | Attendance for work in or about a building where wooden furniture is manufactured. |
| 7 | Carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma) | (a) Attendance for work in a building used for the manufacture of footwear or components of footwear made wholly or partly of leather or fibreboard; or |
| (b) attendance for work at a place used wholly or mainly for the repair of footwear made wholly or partly of leathers or fibreboard. | ||
| 8 | Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of asbestosis | (a) The working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos; or |
| (b) the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing or composed of asbestos; or | ||
| (c) the cleaning of any machinery or plant used in any of the foregoing operations and of any of the chambers, fixtures and appliances for the collection of asbestos dust; or | ||
| (d) substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations. | ||
| 8A | Primary carcinoma of the lung | Exposure to asbestos for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, five years or more in the course of: |
| (a) The manufacture of asbestos textiles; or | ||
| (b) the manufacture of gas masks; or | ||
| (c) spraying asbestos; or | ||
| (d) asbestos insulation work; or | ||
| (e) applying or removing materials containing asbestos in the course of shipbuilding. | ||
| 8B | Unilateral or bilateral diffuse pleural thickening with obliteration of the costophrenic angle | (a) The working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos; or |
| (b) the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing or composed of asbestos; or | ||
| (c) the cleaning of any machinery or plant used in any of the foregoing operations and of any of the chambers, fixtures and appliances for the collection of asbestos dust; or | ||
| (d) substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations. | ||
| 9 | Primary carcinoma of the lung. | (a) Work underground in a tin mine; or |
| (b) exposure to bis (chloromethyl)ether produced during the manufacture of chloromethyl methyl ether; or | ||
| (c) exposure to zinc chromate, calcium chromate or strontium chromate in their pure forms. | ||
| 10 | Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of silicosis. | Exposure to silica dust in the course of: (i) work in a foundry. |
| (a) the manufacture of glass or pottery | ||
| (b) tunnelling in or quarrying sandstone or granite | ||
| (c) mining metal ores | ||
| (d) slate quarrying or the manufacture of artefacts from slate | ||
| (e) mining clay | ||
| (f) using siliceous materials as abrasives | ||
| (g) cutting stone | ||
| (h) stonemasonry |
