Occupational Health Hazards of Older Workers in New Mexico: Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, Grants, N. Mex., August 30, 1979

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - Aged - 95 pages
 

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Page 26 - The date of injury in cases of occupational diseases is that date upon which the employee first suffered disability therefrom and either knew, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known, that said disability was caused by his present or prior employment.
Page 27 - ... would have been equally exposed outside of the employment. The disease must be incidental to the character of the business and not independent of the relation of employer and employee. The disease need not...
Page 27 - Under this test, if the injury can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work, and...
Page 20 - Any employer who has elected to and has complied with the provisions of this act, including the provisions relating to insurance, shall not be subject to...
Page 27 - ... to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment...
Page 80 - House committee report does not indicate the kinds of companies in their 35,000 figure. What is the economic status, the financial status of these companies? Will the enactment of section 6016 and related sections create greater problems than the problems sought to be solved? These are some of the questions that need to be answered before these sections are enacted into law.
Page 61 - On the basis of these and other data, the Department of Labor in 1967 issued an order under the Walsh Healey Public Contracts Act to limit the maximum permissible exposure of uranium miners to 3.6 WLM during any 12 month period, ie, a 0.3 WL...
Page 20 - II. On and after August 1, 1915, every employer of four or more employees, not including private domestic servants and farm and ranch laborers, engaged in a common employment, shall be conclusively presumed to have accepted the provisions of this act...
Page 58 - If after the European experience, there were any doubt as to the implication of radioactivity in the etiology of lung cancer they surely have been resolved by the findings of the present study to date." This critique further stated, "The data to date, therefore, give no comfort to those who are concerned that the problem in American mines may become a disaster that in relative terms could be as great as the European experience and because of the' larger population at risk, could be numerically very...
Page 27 - No compensation shall be paid for death from silicosis unless during the eight years immediately preceding the disablement the deceased employee has been exposed to harmful quantities of silicon dioxide dust for a period of not less than one thousand (1,000) work shifts in employment in this state. 3. No compensation shall be paid for death from silicosis unless the death results within four (4) years from the last day upon which the employee actually worked for the employer against whom compensation...

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