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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Missouri
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Legislative enactment (sections 292.300 to 292.440, occupational diseases)
- Issued
- 1939-08-28 Aug. 28, 1939
- Effective
- standing (read as 1939-08-28)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Aug. 28, 1939 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers (every person, partnership and corporation employing labor in work that exposes employees to the danger of illness or disease incident to the work)
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Missouri DUT-MO
Operative words
every employer of labor in this state engaged in carrying on any work, trade or process... which subjects the employee to the danger of illness or disease incident to such work, trade or process... shall for the protection of all employees... adopt and provide approved and effective devices, means or methods for the prevention of such industrial or occupational diseases
Penalty
Enforcement by the Department of Labor's inspection section under chapter 292 (see § 292.180, Ex. DUT-MO-009); the statute states no separate fine in this section
What it required
Every Missouri employer whose work subjects employees to the danger of illness or disease incident to the work must adopt and provide approved and effective devices, means or methods to prevent that disease; sections 292.300 to 292.440 add the duty to post notices of 'the known dangers to the health of any such employees arising from such work or process, and simple instructions as to any known means of avoiding' them (§ 292.420).
Retrieval noteRendered from the Revisor on Sept. 28, 2026 (478,543 bytes). Sections 292.300 to 292.440 are Missouri's occupational-disease statute of 1919; § 292.310 lists chemical processes 'especially dangerous to the health of the employees,' and §§ 292.380 to 292.400 impose ventilation, dust-control and sanitation duties on employers in those processes. Section 292.300's own words reach 'any work, trade or process... which subjects the employee to the danger of illness or disease incident to such work'; the memoranda plead it as written. Missouri has no State OSHA plan for private-sector employers; the federal general duty clause, 29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1), bound every Missouri employer directly and is in the library as Ex. DUT-AL-009.