Claims by persons who have suffered injury or damage as a result of what are now known as environmental or health hazards. Examples are in the asbestos industry, where asbestosis has been inflicted on those brought into contact with it: Randolph M Fields (a Corporate Body) & Anor v Watts & Ors (The Times, 22 November 1984, unreported). In Hong Kong, compensation shall be payable to any person suffering from pneumoconiosis, which means fibrosis of the lungs due to dust of free silica or dust containing asbestos or free silica, whether or not such disease is accompanied by tuberculosis of the lungs, or any other disease of the pulmonary or respiratory organs caused by exposure to such dust, in respect of any incapacity resulting from the pneumoconiosis and any pain, suffering and loss of amenities arising from the pneumoconiosis, and where any such person dies, to the members of his family: Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) Ordinance (Cap 360) s 4. See also Damages; Negligence.
因現時稱為的環境或健康危害物而蒙受損傷或損害的人所作出的申索。例例於石棉工業中，當被致使接觸石綿的人感染致使沉著病：Randolph M Fields (a Corporate Body) & Anor v Watts & Ors（《時代日報》1984年11月22日，未經彙報）。於香港，就肺塵埃沉著病（即由於游離硅石塵埃或含有石棉或游離硅石的塵埃而導致的肺部纖維化，不論該疾病是否與肺結核病或任何其他因暴露於該等塵埃而導致的肺或呼吸系統的疾病一併出現）所引致的喪失工作能力和肺塵埃沉著病所引起的任何疼痛、痛苦與喪失生活樂趣，付予任何患有肺塵埃沉著病的人補償，及在該人死亡，付予該人的家庭成員補償：《肺塵埃沉著病（補償）條例》（第360章）第4條。另見 Damages; Negligence。

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