Total and incurable loss of mental powers, involving inability to work Total and incurable paralys's of limbs or mental powers Loss of either arm, or of the greater part thereof .... Loss of lower part of either arm, either hand, or five fingers of either hand Loss of a leg Loss of the lower part of a leg Loss of a foot .... .... Loss of one eye, with serious diminution of the sight of the other *Loss of sight of one eye Loss of hearing *For the partial loss of the sight of one eye there shall be payable such percentage of the amount that would be payable for the total loss of the sight thereof as is equal to the percentage of the diminution of sight. Section 6. No. 40 of 1924, 8. 17. Description of Process. Any employment involving the use or handling of arsenic, pho phorus, lead, mercury, or other mineral, or their preparations or com. pounds. Wool-combing; wool-sorting; handling of hides, skins, wool, hair, bristles or carcases. Medical officer, nurse, orderly, or ог other person employed in a hos pital or quarantine station in an ambulance brigade. Any process involving the use of a nitro or amido derivative of benzol, or its preparations or compounds. Any process involving the use of carbon bisulphide or its preparations or compounds. Any process in which nitrous fumes are evolved. Any process in which cyanogen compounds are used. Any process in which carbon monoxide is used, or evolved. Any process involving the use of chromic acid or bi-chromate of ammonium, potassium, or sodium or their preparations. Any industrial process. Handling of mineral oils, pitch, tar or tarry compounds. Chimney sweeping. Any process carried on in compressed air. †See No. 40 of 1924, s. 2, and Gazette of 30th January, 1925, whereby the operation of section 5 of the Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Act, 1924, so far as it extends to these diseases, was limited to the South-West Division of the State. See also Gazette of 27th February, 1925. FOURTH SCHEDULE. Section 11. No. 40 of 1924, Mining; quarrying; excavation; the cutting of standing timber, including the . 15. cutting of scrub and clearing land of stumps and logs; the erection or demolition of any building: the manufacture or use of any explosive; the charge or use of any machinery in motion and driven by steam or other mechanical power; the driving of any vehicle drawn or propelled by animal power or mechanical power; any occupation in which a worker incurs a risk of falling, if the injury or death of the worker results from a fall. By Authority: FRED, WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth. |