N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 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.