Coal (including coke) industries — Coal, lignite, coke etc.; Fuel Gases (including Coal Gas, Producer Gas, Water Gas)

Industries / examples: Coke ovens, coal-gas/producer-gas/water-gas plants, coal washeries and carbonisation units.

Principal hazards & agents

Health effects

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, lung and skin cancer (PAH), CO poisoning, chronic bronchitis/COPD, dermatitis.

Engineering controls

Sealed/larry-car charging and door seals on coke ovens, LEV on oven tops; CO and combustible-gas detection with alarms; PAH air monitoring; dust suppression; gas-purge and permit-to-work for confined spaces.

PPE

Statutory vs annotation: only the entry name and its sub-items are First-Schedule text. The hazard, health-effect, control and PPE notes are occupational-hygiene context, not statutory text. First Schedule, the Factories Act, 1948 [See section 2(cb)] — "List of Industries involving hazardous processes" (29 entries). Section 2(cb) defines "hazardous process". Verbatim list confirmed against the official Factory Inspectorate (Government of Puducherry, Labour Department) publication of the Factories Act, 1948 (py.gov.in/sites/default/files/labourfactory.pdf) and cross-checked with the bare-act text at AdvocateKhoj (advocatekhoj.com/library/bareacts/factories/schedule1.php). The Schedule may be amended/added to by the State Government under section 2(cb) read with section 41A.

Reference information for occupational-health professionals — not medical advice, and not a substitute for examination by a qualified physician.

Other hazardous processes

All 29 hazardous processes — First Schedule

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