Industrial Disease (Noun)
Meaning
Disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts).
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- Workers in asbestos factories often develop severe lung problems due to prolonged exposure to this hazardous material, which is a classic example of an industrial disease.
- The assembly-line worker had spent years performing the same repetitive motion, eventually resulting in debilitating tendonitis and a lawsuit alleging the development of an industrial disease.
- Exposure to loud machinery without protective gear may cause hearing loss, which in many cases is classed as an industrial disease.
- Miners are more susceptible to coal pneumoconiosis, a lung disease caused by breathing in coal dust, making respiratory problems a common industrial disease in that profession.
- After twenty years at the factory, he started to show symptoms of occupational asthma due to inhaling gas particles on a regular basis, this lung condition turning into severe industrial disease.