2006 South Dakota Code - 62-8-1 — Definition of terms.

             (1)      "Compensation" means the payments and benefits provided for in the South Dakota workers' compensation law, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this chapter;

             (2)      "Department" means the Department of Labor of the State of South Dakota;

             (3)      "Disablement" means the event of an employee's becoming actually and totally incapacitated, because of an occupational disease as defined in this chapter, from performing his work in the last occupation in which injuriously exposed to the hazards of such disease. "Disability," "disabled," "total disability," "totally disabled" or "total disablement" shall be synonymous with "disablement";

             (4)      "Injurious exposure" and "harmful quantities" where used in this chapter shall be construed as synonymous terms and shall mean that concentration of toxic material which would, independently of any other cause whatsoever (including the previous physical condition of the claimant) produce or cause the disease for which claim is made;

             (5)      "Nondisabling silicosis" means silicosis demonstrable by X ray examinations of the lungs, which reveal unquestionably the characteristic mottling of silicosis in the lung fields, occurring in an employee after injurious exposure to silicon dioxide for the period provided in § 62-8-14, but not sufficient to disable such employee from performing his usual work;

             (6)      "Occupational disease" means a disease peculiar to the occupation in which the employee was engaged and due to causes in excess of the ordinary hazards of employment and includes any disease due or attributable to exposure to or contact with any radioactive material by an employee in the course of his employment;

             (7)      "Silicosis" means the characteristic fibrotic condition of the lungs caused by the inhalation of silicon dioxide (SiO2) dust.

Source: SDC 1939, § 64.0804 as enacted by SL 1947, ch 426; SL 1971, ch 286, § 1.