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FILE NAME: Reichhold (REI) DATE: 1935 May DOC#: REI003 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Article from Trade Journal - National Safety News Occupational Diseases Made Compensable in N. C . THE state nf North Carolina by the action of is legislature on March 26 became the tw e lfth stme in the Union to adopt an amendment, to its Workmen s Compensation Law so that it will now include occupational diseases, as well as accidents, as compensable disabilities. Commissioner Y. A. Wilson, oi the I State Industrial Commission, said in a recent letter that the outstanding fea /W8BM5iii.** ri saSfl&cV't.vjirr 1,~.vr \ tures of the law are that it provides for a medical committee to examine pro spective and present employees in two dust industries, silica and asbestos; that and heels on your v to slip or "skate" them hard wear-- undreds o f tighcly the sole's entire nds to firmly grip :sc they give many eight, comfortable. 1 provides for the removal of employees in ihe early stages of disease; and that vocational training shall be provided for those who are removed. The com missioner pointed out that ihe amend ment as passed was agreed to by both employers and employees in the state who met in many conferences. Roth branches of the legislature passed the amendment without a dissenting vole. The diseases listed in the amendment as compensable are as follows: Cord equipped, is i chat you can apply 1. Anthrax 2. Arsenic poisoning i. Brass poisoning <I. Iron a n d itrie Piatili. VTarehomtx. 4. Zinc prmnning 5. Manganese poisoning 6. Lead poisoning. Provided the employee shall have hcen exposed to the hazard flf lead poisoning f<r at least thirty days in the preceding twelve months' period, pi. 5-F, L im a , O. and; provided further only the employ er in u-hne employment such employee was last injuriously exposed shall he irmprutwi ND HE E L S inTu iYs liable. Mercurv poisoning S. Phosphorus poisoning ') Poisoning hy carbon hisulplmle. meth anol. n.ipluha. ur volatile halt gcnaied hydrocarbons in. Chrome ulceration 11. Com pressed-air illness 12. Poisoning by benzol, or bv nine and amide derivatives i>f benzol (disulrnl benzol, mulin. and others). IS . In fe c tio n o r in l1 .u iiin .it io n o f th e s k in Of eyes nr other externa! contact surfaces nr oral or n.ts.il cavities doe in b rid lin g oils, cutting compounds, chemical dust, liquids, fumes, gases or vapor. 1 t. Hpithe Itornatoli' cancer sir (deviation of the skin nr nf the corneal utf.uc of the eye due to tar. pitch, bitumen, mineral oil. or parjlhn. nr any compound, product, or residue nf any of these sub stances. 11. Radium poisoning or m iurv hv X-rays U*. Blisters due In use of tmU nr appliances in Ilie employ merit 1 Bursitis of the km c nr elbow. .Ine m in - itim i Ilent pressine in employ n unt is . M iners nystagmus t 1;. Bone fetori due to constant or in'cinut- lent pressure in employment NATIONAL SM'KTY NEWS 20. Synovitis, caused hy trauma in employ ment 21. Tenosynovitis, caused by traum a in em ployment 22. G nhon rimnuxidc poisoning 23- Poisoning hy sulphuric, hydrochloric a t hydrofluoric acid 2-1. Ashestosis 2>. Silicosis I. C . Booster Club Wages Effective Drive for Safety E m p l o y e e s * booster club? of th in inois Central System have cakei advantage of many opportunities t( render community service, including thi sponsorship of community safety cam paigns. Such a campaign was conduct ed recently in Vicksburg, Miss., by th> local L C. Booster Hub. \V. R. Hrenzeale. president of th* club, report? fnai he believes the cam pnign resulted in more benefit thai could have been obtained in am othe wav anil urges that, with the ccopera lion of ihe management, each nub o the Illinois Central System he require! to conduct a safety campaign. A special committee of which. J. M ("handler, the local trainmaster, wa chairman, obtained splendid cooperatioi from ihe city, county and parotida school authorities, editors of the Vicks burg newspapers, ihe Parent-Teachers Association and the Mothers* Club. It all. 27 talks on safely were marie b; different speakers in five white, twi colored and iwu parochial schools ii Vicksburg and six while schools ;n thi county outside the city limits. Th. total enrollment of these schools i. 4,761 pupils. The speakers were select ed from ihe employees of the railroad Safety suggeslion* were mimeosraphet and copies were left with school niuhori ties. Also, ropies of a pamphlet en titled. "A Warning to Boys.'* were dis tributed at each school. The two news papers. The Post and The Herald, gavi many columns of publicity to the cam pnign. Many of the speeches ere re ported m full. In several schools safety committee were organized to give greater attentior to safe practices at school, at home ant on the street. The Mothers' Club alst appointed a committee to follow up tin program. I.oi.i! official of the railroad a Vickslung feel that these contort* will the public have bivri valuable for th* public, ihe railroad and ihe safety move ment. MAY. 1035