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The objective of this report is to describe workers' job-related diseases and the occupations associated with those diseases. The methods include aggregation and analysis of job-related disease and occupation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Supplementary Data System (SDS) for 1985 and 1986--the last years of data available with workers' compensation categories: death, permanent total, permanent partial, and temporary total and partial. Diseases are ranked according to their contribution to the four workers' compensation (WC) categories and also ranked within occupations according to the number of cases. Occupations are ranked according to their contribution to specific diseases within one of the four categories. The following diseases comprise the greatest numbers of deaths: heart attacks, asbestosis, silicosis, and stroke. Within the permanent total category, the diseases with the greatest contributions are heart attack, silicosis, strokes, and inflammation of the joints. For the permanent partial category, they are hearing loss, inflammation of joints, carpal tunnel syndrome, and heart attacks. For the temporary total and partial category, they are: inflammation of joints, carpal tunnel syndrome, dermatitis, and toxic poisoning. Hearing loss or inflammation of joints are associated with more than 300 occupations. Circulatory diseases comprise a larger share of job-related diseases than is generally acknowledged. Occupations contributing the most heart attack deaths are truck drivers, managers, janitors, supervisors, firefighters, and laborers. Ratios of numbers of deaths to numbers of disabilities are far higher for illnesses than injuries. Occupations that are consistent in their high ranking on most lists involving a variety of conditions include nonconstruction laborers, janitors, and construction laborers. The large SDS, though dated, provides a tentative national look at the broad spectrum of occupational diseases as defined by WC and the occupations associated with those diseases in 1985 and 1986. Some description of the spectrum of diseases encountered today is possible especially for occupations, such as those mentioned above for which employment has expanded in the 1990s.
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PMID:Job-related diseases and occupations within a large workers' compensation data set. 948 18

Recognized specific risks of industry considered.Under Section 73, Factory and Workshop Act, certain diseases contracted in a factory or workshop are notifiable by medical practitioners to the Chief Inspector of Factories.Lead poisoning, epitheliomatous and chrome ulceration and anthrax-considered in detail.Effects of inhalation of dust in the causation of silicosis and asbestosis. Relation of these diseases to tuberculosis. Reason to believe that a large number of dusts of different characters will create pathological changes in the lung.Other diseases included in the Schedule under the Workmen's Compensation Act, e.g., nystagmus and dermatitis.Common risks, i.e., shared by the general non-industrial population, incurred by workers.Direct supervision of workers in industry.The sphere and work of a works medical officer. The effects of National Health Insurance on such service. Co-operation between panel and works doctors. Far-reaching effects of the services rendered by works medical officers.Periodic medical inspection under regulations for dangerous trades. Advice given on all medical matters.The charge that industry raises the cancer incidence considered. Means of controlling early recognition and treatment include some non-industrial cases of cancer.Anthrax in industry led to the introduction into the country of Sclavo's serum. Disinfection of wool protects the consumer.First-aid training in factories gives protection in the home.It is suggested that well-organized industry is a centre radiating the principles of preventive medicine.
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PMID:The Influence of Industry on Public Health. 1998 74