CHAPTER 236

An Act to amend and reenact § 65-48.1, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to schedule of occupational diseases covered by
the Workmen’s Compensation Act. CH 721]

Approved March 13, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 65-43.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 65-43.1. The following diseases and conditions shall be deemed
to be occupational diseases, and even they shall not be so considered unless
they are in fact occupational within the meaning of the term occupational
disease as defined in the preceding section:

(1) Anthrax;

(2) Tenosynovitis, bursitis, and epieondylitis;

(3) Cataract of the eyes due to exposure to the heat and glare of
molten glass or to radiant rays such as infra-red;

(4) Compressed air illness;

(5) Conjunctivitis or retinitis due to exposure to radiant rays;

(6) Cellulitis;

(7) Dermatitis;

(8) Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of the skin or of the corneal
surface of the eye due to pitch, tar, soot, bitumen, anthracene, paraffin,
mineral oil or their compounds, products or residues;

(9) Glanders;

(10) Infection or inflammation of the skin or eyes or other external
contact surfaces or oral or nasal cavities due to irritating oil, cutting com-
pounds, chemical dust, liquid fumes, gases or vapors;

(11) Infectious or contagious diseases contracted in the course of
employment in or in immediate connection with a hospital or sanitarium or
public health laboratory ;

(12) Poisoning by: (i) Ammonia; (ii) Arsenic; (iii) Bensol or de-
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rivatives of benzene; (iv) Brass; (v) Cadmium; (vi) Carbon bisulphide
or any sulphide; (vii) Carbon dioxide: (viii) Carbon monoxide; (ix) Car-
bon tetrachloride or other toxic chlorinated hydrocarbons or toxic halo-
genated hydrocarbons; (x) Chlorine; (xi) Cyanide; (xii) Dinitrophenol;
(xiii) Formaldehyde and its preparations; (xiv) Hydrochloric acid; (xv)
Hydrofluoric acid; (xvi) Hydrogen sulphide; (xvii) Lead; (xviii) Man-
ganese; (xix) Mercury; (xx) Menthanol (wood alcohol); (xxi) Methyl
chloride; (xxii) Nickel carbonyl; (xxiii) Nitrous fumes; (xxiv) Nitric
acid; (xxv) Petroleum or petroleum products; (xxvi) Phosphorus; (xxvii)
Sulphur dioxide; (xxviii) Sulphuric acid; (xxix) Tetrachlormethane or any
substance used as or in conjunction with a solvent for acetate of cellulose
or nitrocellulose; (xxx) Turpentine; (xxxi) Zinc; or by contact with any
other industrial chemical :

(13) Radium disability or disability due to exposure to radioactive
substances and X-Ray;

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(15) The pneumoconwoses, including silicosis, coal mtner’s pneumo-
coniosis and other lung diseases due to the occupational exposure to asbes-
tos, and other fibrous silicates; to nonfibrous silicates, including mica,
Fullers Earth, kaolin; to inorganic dusts of calcium, iron, tin, barium,
aluminum, beryllium, and silicon dioxide; to dusts of animal origin; and
to dusts of cotton, hay, grain, bagasse, paprica, tobacco, wood, coal and
gum acacia;

(16) Ulceration due to chrome compound or to caustic chemical acids
or alkalies and undulant fever caused by the industrial slaughtering and
processing of livestock and the handling of hides.