2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 1 - Short Title; Definitions; Application › 3 - Application.

§  3.  Application.  1.  Hazardous  employments. Compensation shall be
  payable for injuries or death incurred by  employees  in  the  following
  employments:
 
  Group 1. Canning of:
  Fish
  Foodstuffs
  Fruit
  Vegetables
 
  Group 2. Care of:
  Buildings
  Grounds
  Trees
 
  Group 3.  Construction of:
  Bridges
  Buildings
  Car shops
  Conduits
  Curbs
  Dams
  Dynamos
  Electric light and power lines or appliances
  Electric railways
  Highways
  Incline railways
  Machine shops
  Manufacturing plants
  Power plants
  Railways
  Sewers
  Sidewalks
  Steam plants
  Steam railways
  Steel bridges and buildings
  Street railways
  Structures of all kinds
  Subaqueous works
  Subways
  Telegraph lines
  Telephone lines
 
  Group 4.  Installation of:
  Boilers
  Dynamos
  Electric light and power
lines or appliances
  Elevators
  Engines, stationary
  Fire escapes
  Heating apparatus
  Lighting apparatus
  Machinery, heavy
  Pipes
  Telephones
Group 5.  Laying of:

  Cables
  Floor coverings
  Pipes
  Tiles
  Wires
 
  Group 6.  Manufacture of:
  Acids
  Adding machines
  Aeroplanes
  Agricultural implements
  Aircraft
  Alcohol
  Ammonia
  Ammunition
  Anchors
  Artificial ice or stone
  Asbestos
  Asphalt
  Asphalted paper
  Automobiles
  Baby carriages, toy
  Bags, cloth and paper
  Barrels
  Baskets
  Beds
  Bedsprings
  Belting
  Bicycles
  Biscuits
  Blacking or polish for shoes
  Blankets
  Boats, small
  Boilers
  Bolts
  Bone articles
  Boots
  Boxes
  Brick
  Brooms
  Brushes
  Butter
  Buttons
  Cables
  Calcium carbide
  Cameras and supplies
  Candles
  Candy
  Canoes
  Canvas
  Caps
  Cardboard boxes
  Carpets
  Carpet sweepers
  Carriage mountings
  Carriages
  Cash registers
  Castings

  Cattle foods
  Celluloid
  Cement
  Cereals
  Charcoal
  Cheese
  Cheese boxes
  Chemical preparations, noncorosive
  Chemicals
  Cigarettes
  Cigars
  Cloth
  Clothing
  Coffins
  Collars
  Color
  Concrete blocks
  Condiments
  Confectionery
  Cordage
  Corrosive acids or salts
  Corrugated paper boxes
  Corsets
  Crackers
  Cutlery
  Dairy products
  Door screens
  Doors
  Drugs
  Dyes
  Electric fixtures
  Elevators
  Engines, heavy and traction
  Excelsior
  Explosives
  Extracts
  Fabrics
  Fabrics, articles from
  Felt
  Fertilizers
  Fibre
  Films for pictures
  Firearms
  Fire-proofing
  Fixtures, water, gas or
electric
  Foodstuffs
  Forgings
  Furnaces
  Furniture
  Furs
  Gas fixtures
  Gases
  Gasoline
  Gelatine
  Glass
  Glass products and wares
  Gloves

  Glue
  Gold ware
  Gun powder
  Hardware
  Harness
  Hats
  Headings
  Hemp or manila products
  Hose, rubber
  Hosiery
  Ice, artificial
  Ice cream
  Ink
  Implements, agricultural
  Instruments
  Interior woodwork
  Iron, structural
  Ivory articles
  Japans
  Jewelry
  Kegs
  Leather goods and products
  Light machines
  Liquors
  Locomotives
  Machinery
  Machines, adding, light and
threshing
  Malt liquors
  Manila or hemp products
  Maltesses
  Mattresses
  Meat products
  Meats
  Medicines
  Men's clothing
  Metal articles, beds,
instruments, toys, utensils
and wares
  Metal products, sheet
  Metal, structural
  Milk products
  Mineral water
  Motor vehicles
  Mouldings
  Moving picture films and machines
  Nails
  Oil
  Organs
  Paint
  Paper
  Paper boxes
  Paper, tarred, pitched or asphalted
  Paste
  Paving blocks and material
  Perfumes
  Petroleum and products thereof
  Pharmaceutical preparations

  Photographic cameras and supplies
  Pianos
  Pipes
  Pitched paper
  Plaster, compounds of
  Plated ware
  Polish for shoes
  Porcelain
  Pottery
  Printers' rollers
  Printing ink
  Pyroxylin and its compounds and plastics
  Rails
  Rattan ware
  Registers, cash
  Robes
  Ropes
  Rubber goods
  Saddlery
  Safes
  Salts, or acids, corrosive
  Sanitary fixtures
  Screens, window and door
  Screws
  Shades, window
  Shafting
  Sheet metal and products thereof
  Shell articles
  Shirts
  Shoddy
  Shoe blacking or polish
  Shoes
  Silver ware
  Sleighs
  Soaps
  Socks
  Soda water
  Spices
  Spirituous, liquors
  Spokes
  Stationery
  Staves
  Steel, structural
  Stockings
  Stone, artificial
  Stoves
  Structural steel, iron or metal
  Sweepers, carpet
  Tar
  Tarred paper
  Terra-cotta
  Textiles
  Textiles, articles from
  Thread
  Threshing machines
  Tile
  Tires, rubber
  Tobacco and products thereof

  Toilet preparations
  Tools
  Toys, metal and wooden
  Traction engines
  Trunks
  Tubing, metal and rubber
  Tubs
  Turpentine
  Typewriters
  Umbrellas
  Utensils
  Valises
  Varnish
  Vats
  Vehicles
  Veneer
  Wagons
  Wallpaper
  Water fixtures
  Waters, mineral or soda
  Wax
  White ware
  Wicker ware
  Window screens and shades
  Wine
  Wire and wire goods
  Women's clothing
  Wooden articles
  Woodwork, interior
  Yarn
 
  Group 7.  Operation of:
  Aeroplanes
  Air craft
  Baling machines
  Barges
  Boats
  Boilers, stationary
  Cables, telegraph
  Car shops
  Cars
  Dynamos
  Electric light and power lines or appliances
  Electric railways
  Electric vehicles, rollers and engines
  Elevators, freight,
passenger and grain
  Engines, stationary and traction
  Gas vehicles, rollers and engines
  Gas wells
  Gasoline vehicles, rollers and engines
  Grain elevators
  Hand trucks
  Horse drawn vehicles, rollers
and engines
  Incline railways
  Lighters
  Machine shops

  Oil wells
  Plants, power and other
  Pressing machines
  Railways
  Rollers
  Ships
  Stationary engines and
boilers
  Steam plants
  Steam railways
  Street railways
  Telegraph lines
  Telephone lines
  Threshing machines
  Traction engines
  Transports
  Trucks
  Tug boats
  Vehicles
  Vessels
  Wagons
  Waterworks
 
  Group 8.  Preparation of:
  Fish
  Foodstuffs
  Fruit
  Gelatine
  Meat stuffs
  Meats
  Metals
  Minerals
  Paste
  Vegetables
  Wax
 
  Group 9.  Removal of:
  Ashes
  Awnings
  Garbage
  Snow
 
  Group 10.  Sinking of:
  Drilled wells
  Gas wells
  Oil wells
  Salt wells
 
  Group 11.  Storage or handling of:
  Ammunition
  Cargoes
  Corrosive acids or salts
  Chemicals
  Explosives
  Gasoline
  Gun powder
  Ice
  Petroleum

  Group 12.  Work as:
  Barbers
  Blacksmiths
  Carpenters
  Chauffeurs
  Domestic workers, other than
those employed on farms, employed
by the same employer for a
minimum of forty hours per week
  Drivers
  Furriers
  Garbage sorters
  Horseshoers
  Janitors
  Jockeys, apprentice jockeys and exercise persons
  licensed under article two or four of the racing,
  pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law
  Life guards
  Longshoremen
  Marble workers
  Masons
  Movers
  Sheet metal workers
  Teamsters
  Theatrical electricians, flymen,
lamp operators, moving picture
machiners, property men, stage
carpenters and stage hands
 
  Group 13.  Work at:
  Awning erection
  Blasting
  Bleaching
  Boiler covering
  Bookbinding
  Booming timber or logs
  Bottling
  Bricklaying
  Building, care, maintenance
and salvage
  Cable laying or repair,
underground
  Canning
  Carpentry
  Clam cultivating, harvesting,
  Opening or planting
  Cleaning clothes, streets,
windows, or buildings
  Concreting
  Cork cutting
  Decorating
  Disinfecting
  Dredging
  Dyeing
  Electrotyping
  Embossing
  Engraving
  Excavation

  Glazing
  Grave digging
  Heating
  Ice distribution, harvesting or storage
  Landscape gardening
  Lighting
  Lithographing
  Logging
  Lumbering
  Marble cutting
  Marine wrecking
  Milling
  Mining
  Multigraphing
  Oyster cultivation, planting,
harvesting or opening
  Ore reduction
  Painting
  Papering
  Paving
  Photo-engraving
  Picture hanging
  Pile driving
  Pipe covering
  Plastering
  Plumbing
  Printing
  Rafting
  Renovating
  River-driving
  Road building
  Roofing
  Salvaging of buildings
or contents
  Sea food cultivation,
harvesting or planting
  Shaft sinking
  Ship building
  Smelting
  Stereotyping
  Stone crushing,
cutting, dressing,
grinding or setting
  Storage of all kinds and storage for hire
  Street cleaning or construction
  Structural carpentry
  Subaquesous construction
  Subway construction
  Tree moving, planting,
trimming and surgery
  Tunneling
  Undertaking
  Upholstering
  Warehousing
  Well digging or drilling
  Window cleaning
  Wrecking, marine
Group 14.  Work in
  Abattoirs
  Bakeries
  Bark mills
  Boarding stables
  Breweries
  Caissons
  Clay pits
  Coal yards
  Compressed air compartments
  Dining cars
  Distilleries
  Express cars
  Fish markets
  Flax mills
  Foundries
  Garages
  Garbage plants
  Gravel pits
  Groceries, wholesale
  Hotels
  Junk dealers' places
  Knitting factories
  Laboratories
  Lath mills
  Laundries
  Life-saving stations
  Lime kilns
  Livery stables
  Lumber yards
  Machine shops
  Markets, fish, meat, poultry
  Meat markets
  Packing houses
  Paper mills
  Parlor cars
  Pickle factories
  Planing mills
  Poultry markets
  Printing plants
  Pulp mills
  Quarries
  Restaurants and Grills
  Rolling mills
  Sales stables
  Sand pits
  Sash and door factories
  Saw mills
  Sewage disposal plants
  Shale pits
  Shingle mills
  Sleeping cars
  Spinning manufactories
  Stables, livery, boarding or sales
  Storage warehouses
  Sugar refineries
  Tanneries

  Weaving manufactories
  Wholesale groceries
Group  14-a.  On  and after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two,
  any other employment in a trade, business, or occupation carried  on  by
  the  employer  for  pecuniary  gain  in  which one or more employees are
  employed.
Group 14-b. Employment as a farm laborer as provided herein. A  farmer
  shall provide coverage under this chapter for all farm laborers.
Group  15.  Employment  as a keeper, guard, resident physician, nurse,
  interne, resident interne, assistant resident interne or  orderly  in  a
  prison reformatory, hospital for the mentally ill or hospital maintained
  or  operated  by  a  municipal  corporation  or other subdivision of the
  state,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"
  "employer" or "employee" in subdivisions three, four and five of section
  two of this chapter.
Group  15-a.  Employment  as  a county fire coordinator or as a deputy
  county fire coordinator pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five-a or
  section  four  hundred  one  of  the  county  law,  notwithstanding  the
  definitions  of  the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or "employment" in
  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.
The  terms  "county  fire  coordinator"  and   "deputy   county   fire
  coordinator,"  as  used in this group, shall include any county official
  who is not appointed pursuant to the provisions of section  two  hundred
  twenty-five-a  of  the  county  law,  but  is  appointed pursuant to the
  provisions of a special law, a county charter or a county local law  and
  who  is authorized or required to perform in the county the duties which
  are similar to those of a county fire coordinator or deputy county  fire
  coordinator  under  such  section  of  the county law and sections eight
  hundred seven-a and eight hundred seven-b of the education law.
Group 16. Any employment by the state, including the employment of all
  elected and appointed public officers, notwithstanding  the  definitions
  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer" or "employee," in subdivisions
  three, four and five of section two of this chapter; but work as a civil
  defense volunteer under the provisions of the  state  defense  emergency
  act  shall not be deemed employment by the state. An employee engaged in
  any employment herein whose wages are paid by a municipal corporation or
  other subdivision of the state or by an employer other  than  the  state
  shall  be  deemed  an  employee  of  such municipal corporation or other
  political subdivision of the state or such employer other than the state
  for the purposes of this chapter. The head  of  any  department  of  the
  state government may, with the prior written approval of the director of
  the  budget,  accept  or approve the acceptance by any bureau, agency or
  other unit within said department of the services of a volunteer  worker
  without  salary,  and  such  a volunteer worker shall be deemed to be an
  employee in the employment of the state in the unclassified service  for
  the purpose of this chapter.
Group  17.  Any  employment  carried  on by a municipal corporation or
  other subdivision of the state and enumerated in  the  foregoing  groups
  one  to  fourteen,  inclusive,  and  on  and  after July first, nineteen
  hundred fifty-one, other such employment to  the  extent  of  authorized
  services  related  to  civil  defense  and performed by employees in the
  course of employment  or  in  relation  thereto;  and  the  sheriff  and
  undersheriff  of  any  county and the duly appointed regular deputies of
  the sheriff, notwithstanding the definition of the term "employment"  in
  subdivision  five  of section two of this chapter; but employment in the
  department of sanitation of the city  of  New  York  in  the  sanitation
  service  classification  of  the  classified  civil service of such city

  shall not be within the coverage of  this  chapter.  The  activities  of
  civil  defense  volunteers who are auxiliary firefighters and members of
  rescue squads  in  authorized  services  while  undergoing  training  or
  practice  sponsored or authorized by a local office of civil defense, as
  defined in the state defense emergency act, and on and after July first,
  nineteen hundred  fifty-three,  the  activities  of  all  civil  defense
  volunteers  who  are  personnel of such local office of civil defense in
  authorized services during  authorized  participation  in  training  and
  practice  exercises  held  at  the  direction  of or designated as state
  training and practice exercises by the state  civil  defense  commission
  pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision three-f of
  the state defense emergency act, are hazardous employments carried on by
  the municipal corporation or other subdivision of the state that created
  the  local office under the state defense emergency act and such members
  of an auxiliary police organization located in a  municipal  corporation
  which   elected  to  include  such  persons  within  the  definition  of
  "employee" as authorized by subdivision four  of  section  two  of  this
  chapter   shall   be  deemed  employees  of  the  municipal  corporation
  authorizing their services, and such members of rescue squads, auxiliary
  firefighters, and civil defense volunteers shall be deemed employees  of
  the municipal corporation or other subdivision of the state for purposes
  of this chapter, provided, however, that each such municipal corporation
  or  other  subdivision  of  the  state or insurance carrier shall in the
  first instance  pay  all  awards  of  workers'  compensation,  including
  medical   benefits,   provided  by  this  chapter;  and  such  municipal
  corporation or other subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall
  be reimbursed by the comptroller of the state of New York,  periodically
  every  six  months,  on  vouchers  certified  by the state civil defense
  commission,  for  one-half  of  all  workers'   compensation   benefits,
  including both cash and medical benefits, paid pursuant to awards of the
  board, to the extent not previously reimbursed, paid for injury or death
  of a civil defense volunteer caused by an accident that arose out of and
  in  the  course  of any such training and practice exercise, held on and
  after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-three, at the direction  of  or
  designated  as a state training and practice exercise by the state civil
  defense commission pursuant to the  provisions  of  section  twenty-one,
  subdivision three-f of the state defense emergency act. A town shall not
  be  deemed  to  be  the employer of the officers and employees of a fire
  district and shall not be liable for payment  of  compensation  to  such
  officers  or  employees  under  any  provision of this chapter. A social
  services official, as defined in subdivision fourteen of section two  of
  the social services law, may accept or approve the services of volunteer
  workers  without salary, in accordance with the regulations of the state
  department of social services, and such  a  voluntary  worker  shall  be
  deemed  to  be  an  employee  of  the  social  services  district in the
  unclassified service for the purpose of this chapter.
Group 18. All other employments, except persons engaged in a  teaching
  or  nonmanual  capacity in or for a religious, charitable or educational
  institution, notwithstanding the definition of employment in subdivision
  five of section two, not hereinbefore  enumerated,  carried  on  by  any
  person,  firm  or corporation in which there are engaged or employed one
  or more employees regularly, in the same business or  in  or  about  the
  same establishment either upon the premises or at the plant or away from
  the  plant  of  the  employer,  under  any  contract of hire, express or
  implied, oral or written, except farm laborers and domestics other  than
  those  within the coverage of this chapter pursuant to groups fourteen-b
  and twelve respectively of this subdivision,  unless  the  employer  has
  elected  to  bring such employees under the law by securing compensation

  in accordance with the terms  of  section  fifty  of  this  chapter  and
  persons  engaged in voluntary service not under contract of hire. A duly
  ordained, commissioned or licensed minister, priest or rabbi, a  sexton,
  a  christian science reader, or a member of a religious order, shall not
  be deemed to be employed or engaged in employment  under  the  terms  of
  this   section.  Recipients  of  charitable  aid  from  a  religious  or
  charitable institution who perform work in or for the institution  which
  is  incidental  to or in return for the aid conferred, and not under any
  express contract of hire, shall not be deemed to be employed or  engaged
  in  employment  under  the  terms  of  this section. All persons who are
  members  of  a  supervised  amateur  athletic  activity  operated  on  a
  non-profit  basis  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be employed or engaged in
  employment under the terms of this section, provided that  said  members
  are  not  also  otherwise  engaged  or  employed  by any person, firm or
  corporation  participating  in  said  athletic   activity.   The   terms
  "religious,  charitable  or educational institution" mean a corporation,
  unincorporated  association,  community  chest,   fund   or   foundation
  organized   and   operated  exclusively  for  religious,  charitable  or
  educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inure to  the
  benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
Group  19.  An  employer may bring an employment that is not listed in
  this  section  within  the  coverage  of  this   chapter   by   securing
  compensation  to his employee or employees engaged in such employment in
  accordance with section fifty of this chapter.
Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the  state
  may bring its employees or officers, elective or appointed or otherwise,
  not  enumerated  in  groups  one to seventeen of subdivision one of this
  section inclusive, of this chapter within the coverage of  this  chapter
  by  appropriate  action  of  the legislative or governmental body of the
  municipal corporation  or  political  subdivision,  notwithstanding  the
  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or "employee" in
  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter; and by
  separate and distinct action of said legislative  or  governmental  body
  may  bring  within the coverage of this chapter any group, as defined by
  order of the New York state civil defense commission, of  civil  defense
  volunteers  not enumerated in group seventeen of subdivision one of this
  section, who are personnel of a volunteer agency of the local office  of
  such municipal corporation or other political subdivision, as defined in
  the  state  defense  emergency act, as to their authorized civil defense
  services to the extent not covered under article ten  of  this  chapter.
  Where  one  or  more groups of such civil defense volunteers of a county
  office of civil defense are not brought  within  the  coverage  of  this
  chapter  by  the  county,  a  town or a village in such county or a city
  participating in the consolidated county office of civil defense of such
  county may, by separate  and  distinct  action  of  its  legislative  or
  governmental  body,  bring  the  members of such group or groups of duly
  enrolled civil defense volunteers who are residents of and are  enrolled
  from  such  town,  village  or  city within the coverage of this chapter
  during any period when the county has not so provided; however, whenever
  a county brings one or more  groups  of  its  civil  defense  volunteers
  within  the  coverage of this chapter, such other coverage of members of
  such group or groups by the  town,  village  or  city  shall  be  deemed
  terminated  to the extent and as of the date coverage is afforded by the
  county. A village may  not  provide  such  coverage  during  any  period
  coverage  is  provided by a town in which the village is located, except
  where there is a deputy director of civil  defense  for  a  village  not
  wholly within one town.
A  public  or  not-for-profit corporation, association, institution or
  agency organized as an unincorporated association or  duly  incorporated
  under  the  laws  of  this  state  shall  be deemed to be an employer of
  persons who are performing services for it pursuant  to  paragraphs  (h)
  and  (i)  of  subdivision  two  of  section  65.10  of  the penal law in
  fulfillment of a sentence of probation or of conditional  discharge  and
  of  persons  performing  such  services  pursuant  to  the provisions of
  section 170.55 or 170.56 of the criminal procedure law, and such persons
  shall for the purposes of this chapter be deemed to be employees for the
  public  or  not-for-profit  corporation,  association,  institution   or
  agency.  Said  employer  may  elect  to  bring such employees within the
  coverage of this chapter by securing compensation in accordance with the
  terms of section fifty of this chapter.
Group 20. In a city having  a  population  of  one  million  or  more,
  teachers,   regular  or  substitute,  of  shop  work,  manual  training,
  industrial or trade subjects,  mechanic  arts,  textiles,  machine  shop
  assistants,  laboratory  assistants,  laboratory specialists, laboratory
  technicians,  and  teachers  of  any  subject,  trade,   or   employment
  requiring, for instruction purposes, use of tools or machinery for which
  protective,  guarding  or  safety devices are required by the labor law,
  may elect to receive the benefits prescribed by  this  chapter  provided
  they are not qualified to receive benefits even if eligible to apply for
  retirement  under  the  teachers'  retirement  system in said city.   An
  election to come within this chapter shall constitute a  waiver  of  any
  right  to  receive  absence  refunds from the board of education of said
  city. But a teacher shall, if incapacitated to teach by  reason  of  his
  injuries, be entitled to the refund of his accumulated deductions in the
  teachers'  retirement  system or in lieu thereof he may elect to receive
  an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of  said  accumulated
  deductions.  Any  election or choice provided for herein may be made for
  the teacher by one acting in the teacher's behalf  if  said  teacher  is
  incapacitated to act for himself.
Group  20-a.  For the purposes of this chapter, the work of any person
  employed as a school aide by school authorities of any school  district,
  notwithstanding  the  definitions of the terms "employer," "employee" or
  "employment" in subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this
  chapter.
Group 20-b. For the purposes of this chapter, the work of  any  person
  employed  in  a  nonpedagogical  capacity by school authorities within a
  city having a population of one million  or  more,  notwithstanding  the
  definitions  of  the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or "employment" in
  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.
Group 21. For the purposes of  this  chapter,  on  and  after  January
  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-two, the work of a newspaper carrier as
  defined in section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education  law
  for  an  employer  of  one  or more employees as defined in subdivisions
  three and four of section two of this chapter.
Group 22. Employment as a teacher in  a  public  school  or  place  of
  instruction  maintained  or operated by a board of education or trustees
  of a school district, other than a school district  located  in  a  city
  having  a  population  of  more  than  one  million, notwithstanding the
  definitions of the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or  "employee"  in
  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.
Group  23.  For  the  purposes of this chapter, the work of any person
  employed to direct vehicular traffic at any street crossing  or  highway
  intersection crossed by pupils in going to and returning from any school
  in  this  state,  whose  chief  duty  primarily is to guard the life and
  safety of such pupils.
Group 24. For the purposes of this chapter, employment of  any  person
  appointed  by the board of water supply of the city of New York pursuant
  to the provisions of section K51-36.0 of the administrative code of  the
  city   of  New  York,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms
  "employment", "employer", or "employee", in subdivisions three, four and
  five of section two of this chapter.
2.   Occupational   diseases.   Compensation   shall  be  payable  for
  disabilities sustained or death incurred by an employee  resulting  from
  the following occupational diseases:
COLUMN ONE                       COLUMN TWO
 
  Description of Diseases          Description of Process
 
   1. Anthrax.                     1. Handling of wool, hair,
bristles, hides or skins.
 
   2. Lead poisoning or its        2. Any process involving the
sequelae.                       use of or direct contact
with lead or its prepar-
ations or compounds.
 
   3. Zinc poisoning or its        3. Any process involving the
sequelae.                       use of or direct contact
with zinc or its prepar-
ations or compounds or
alloys.
 
   4. Mercury poisoning or         4. Any process involving the
its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact
with mercury or its
preparations or compounds.
 
   5. Phosphorus poisoning or      5. Any process involving the
its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact
with phosphorous or its
preparations or compounds.
 
   6. Arsenic poisoning or         6. Any process involving the use
its sequelae.                   of or direct contact with
arsenic or its preparations
or compounds.
 
   7. Poisoning by wood            7. Any process involving the use
alcohol.                        of wood alcohol or any
preparation containing wood
alcohol.
 
   8. Poisoning by benzol or       8. Any process involving the use
nitro-, hydro-,                 of or direct contact with
hydroxy- and amido-             benzol or nitro-, hydro-,
derivatives of benzene          hydroxy-, or amido-
(dinitro-benzol, anilin,        derivatives of benzene or
and others), or its             its preparations or compounds.
sequelae.
 
   9. Poisoning by carbon          9. Any process involving
bisulphide or its               the use of or direct contact
sequelae, or any                with carbon bisulphide or
sulphide.                       its preparations or com-
pounds, or any sulphide.
 
  10. Poisoning by nitrous        10. Any process in which
fumes or its sequelae.          nitrous fumes are evolved.
 
  11. Poisoning by nickel         11. Any process in which nickel
carbonyl or its                 carbonyl is evolved.
sequelae.
 
  12. Dope poisoning              12. Any process involving the
(poisoning by                   use of or direct contact
tetrachlor-methane or           with any substance used
any substance used as           as or in conjunction with
or in conjunction with          a solvent for acetate of
a solvent for acetate           cellulose or nitro
of cellulose or nitro           cellulose.
cellulose, or its
sequelae.
 
  13. Poisoning by                13. Any process involving the
formaldehyde and its            use of or direct contact
preparations.                   with formaldehyde and its
preparations.
 
  14. Chrome ulceration           14. Any process involving the
or its sequelae or              use of or direct contact
chrome poisoning.               with chromic acid or
bychromate of ammonium,
potassium or sodium, or
their preparations.
 
  15. Epitheliomatous cancer      15. Handling or use of tar,
or ulceration of the            pitch, bitumen, mineral
skin or of the corneal          oil, or paraffin or any
surface of the eye,             compound, product or
due to tar, pitch,              residue of any of these
bitumen, mineral oil,           substances.
or paraffin, or any
compound, product or
residue of any of these
substances.
 
  16. Glanders.                   16. Care or handling of any
equine animal or the
carcass of any such animal.
 
  17. Compressed air              17. Any process carried on
illness or its                  in compressed air.
sequelae.
 
  18. Miners' diseases,           18. Any process involving
including only                  mining.
cellulitis, bursitis,
ankylostomiasis,
tenosynovitis and
nystagmus.

  19. Cataract in                 19. Processes in the manufacture
glassworkers.                   of glass involving exposure
to the glare of molten
glass.
 
  20. Radium poisoning or         20. Any process involving the
disability due to               use of or direct contact
radio-active pro-               with radium or radio-active
perties of sub-                 substance or the use of or
stances or to                   direct exposure to Roentgen
Roentgen rays                   rays (X-rays) or ionizing
(X-rays) or exposure            radiation.
to ionizing radiation.
 
  21. Methyl chloride             21. Any process involving the
poisoning.                      use of or direct contact
with methyl chloride or its
preparations or compounds.
 
  22. Carbon monoxide             22. Any process involving direct
poisoning.                      exposure to carbon monoxide
in buildings, sheds or
enclosed places.
 
  23. Poisoning by sulphuric,     23. Any process involving the use
hydro-chloric or                of or direct contact with
hydro-fluoric acid.             sulphuric, hydrochloric or
hydrofluoric acids or
their fumes.
 
  24. Respiratory,                24. Any process involving the
gastro-intestinal               use of or direct contact
or physiological                with petroleum or petroleum
nerve and eye dis-              products and their fumes.
orders due to con-
tact with petroleum
products and their
fumes.
 
  25. Disability arising          25. Any process involving
from blisters or                continuous friction,
abrasions.                      rubbing or vibration
causing blisters or
abrasions.
 
  26. Disability arising          26. Any process involving
from bursitis or                continuous rubbing, pre-
synovitis.                      sure or vibration of the
parts affected.
 
  27. Dermatitis                  27. Any process involving the
(venenata).                     use of or direct contact
with acids, alkalies, acids
or oil, or with brick,
cement, lime, concrete or
mortar capable of causing
dermatitis (venenata).

  28. Byssinosis.                 28. Any process involving
exposure to raw cotton.
 
  29. Silicosis or other          29. Any process involving ex-
dust diseases.                  posure to silica or other
harmful dust.
 
  30. Any and all                 30. Any and all employments
occupational diseases.          enumerated in subdivision
one of section three of
this chapter.
Nothing  in paragraph thirty of this subdivision shall be construed to
  apply to any disability  or  death  due  to  any  disease  described  in
  paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.