2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 617 - Occupational Diseases
NRS 617.140 - Silicosis defined.


NV Rev Stat § 617.140 (2011) What's This?

Silicosis shall mean a disease of the lungs caused by breathing silica dust (silicon dioxide) producing fibrous nodules, distributed through the lungs and demonstrated by X-ray examination or by autopsy.

[Part 26:44:1947; A 1949, 365; 1953, 297]

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