Repeatedly prepare, card, or spin natural vegetable fibers

Comments

"Byssinosis is a form of lung disease associated with occupational exposures to vegetable dusts arising from the processing of cotton, flax, hemp, and to a limited degree sisal." [Hendrick, p. 46] Cotton, flax, and soft hemp dusts can cause chronic bronchitis. [APHA, p. 133]

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Processing Materials

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Diseases

Diseases associated with this job task:

• Byssinosis
• Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive

Jobs

Jobs associated with this job task:

• Textile Winding, Twisting & Drawing Out Machine Operators
• Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other

Industries

Industries associated with this job task:

• All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills
• Broadwoven Fabric Mills
• Carpet and Rug Mills
• Cotton Ginning
• Narrow Fabric Mills
• Other Oilseed Processing
• Rope, Cordage, and Twine Mills
• TEXTILE MILLS
• Thread Mills
• Yarn Spinning Mills