Schedule III. List of Occupational Diseases — Employee's Compensation Act, 1923 -

Schedule III — List of Occupational Diseases

(See section 3)

Infectious and parasitic diseases contracted in an occupation with particular risk of contamination — health/laboratory work, veterinary work, handling animals or contaminated carcasses/merchandise, and other work carrying particular contamination risk.
Diseases caused by work in compressed air.
Diseases caused by lead or its toxic compounds.
Poisoning by nitrous fumes.
Poisoning by organophosphorus compounds.

(All entries: all work involving exposure to the risk concerned.)

Diseases caused by phosphorus, mercury, benzene (or homologues), nitro/amido derivatives of benzene, chromium, arsenic, or their toxic compounds.
Diseases caused by radioactive substances and ionising radiations.
Primary epitheliomatous skin cancer caused by tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, anthracene, or their compounds/products/residues.
Diseases caused by toxic halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons (aliphatic and aromatic series).
Diseases caused by carbon disulphide.
Occupational cataract due to infra-red radiation.
Diseases caused by manganese or its toxic compounds.
Skin diseases caused by physical, chemical or biological agents not otherwise listed.
Hearing impairment caused by noise.
Poisoning by dinitrophenol or its homologues/derivatives.
Diseases caused by beryllium or cadmium or their toxic compounds.
Occupational asthma caused by recognised sensitising agents inherent to the work process.
Diseases caused by fluorine or its toxic compounds.
Diseases caused by nitroglycerine or other nitro-acid esters.
Diseases caused by alcohols and ketones.
Diseases caused by asphyxiants — carbon monoxide and its toxic derivatives, hydrogen sulfide.
Lung cancer and mesotheliomas caused by asbestos.
Primary neoplasm of the epithelial lining of the urinary bladder, kidney or ureter.
Snow blindness in snow-bound areas.
Disease due to effect of heat in extreme hot climate.
Disease due to effect of cold in extreme cold climate.

(All entries: all work involving exposure to the risk concerned.)

Pneumoconioses caused by sclerogenic mineral dust (silicosis, anthraco-silicosis, asbestosis) and silico-tuberculosis, provided silicosis is an essential factor in causing the resultant incapacity or death.
Bagassosis.
Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by cotton, flax, hemp and sisal dust (byssinosis).
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by inhalation of organic dusts.
Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by hard metals.

(All entries: all work involving exposure to the risk concerned.)