Table 6
Estimated annual average number of cases of occupational asthma by occupation and industry, for agents most frequently reported by chest physicians, 1996–2001
| Agents† | Average annual number of cases reported* | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Industry | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manage. & admin. | Prof. | Assoc. prof./tech. | Clin./secret. | Craft related | Pers. & protect. | Sales | Plant & machine | All other | Not known | Agric., fores., & fish. | Mining & quarry. | Food & org. manuf. | Petrol, rubber, plastics | Metal/auto. prod. manuf. | Utilities/constr. | Health/soc. serv. | All other | Not known | |
| *<0.5 cases per annum are not shown; 10 or more cases per annum shown in bold. | |||||||||||||||||||
| †With estimated annual average frequency of ⩾10, 1992–2001 (see table 4). | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Isocyanates (84) | 1 | 1 | 46 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 4 | 24 | 5 | ||||
| 2. Flour/grain (54) | 5 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 41 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3. Wood dusts (34) | 7 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 10 | ||||||||
| 4. Metals (27) | 10 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 5. Solder/colophony (25) | 13 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 6. Glutaraldehyde (21) | 1 | 13 | 1 | 15 | |||||||||||||||
| 7. Resins (21) | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| 8. Welding fume (18) | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 9. Lab animals (17) | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |||||||||||||
| 10. Irritant gases (14) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 11. Other animals (14) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
| 12. Latex (13) | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 13. Cutting oils (13) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 14. Paints (11) | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 15. Enzymes (10) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Total | 7 | 20 | 40 | 4 | 153 | 11 | 5 | 69 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 65 | 26 | 92 | 14 | 31 | 73 | 19 |
