Farmer's Lung

Farmer's Lung as the name suggests, is caused by inhaling certain allergy-causing dust found in some agricultural operations. Exposure to organ chlorines and carbamate pesticides may also be risk factors for farmer's lung.

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis or hypersensitivity pneumonitis, which is the technical name for Farmer's Lung, are general medical terms that include other lung conditions resulting from exposure to allergy-causing dusts found in different kinds of workplaces or locations.

Dust from the below can cause serious illness.

  • Hay, straw, grain and similar farm products can go mouldy and produce the spores of micro-organisms that cause farmer’s lung.
  • Handling the compost used in mushroom growing also gives rise to the Micro-organisms that cause a similar disease called mushroom workers lung.
  • Dry dust from grain and feedstuffs can cause irritation or asthma, e.g. harvest worker’s lung.
  • Poultry feathers and droppings can cause allergies – poultry breeder’s lung.
  • Dust in intensive livestock houses can also cause similar respiratory ailments.

You may be at risk if you:

  • Handle hay, straw, grain or similar product that has been harvested in damp conditions and stored in away that leads to heating and drying out;
  • Working with mushroom compost
  • Are exposed to dry dust from the harvesting and storage of grain or milling moving and handling of feedstuffs;
  • Work with intensively kept livestock, e.g. pigs and poultry.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health – COSHH

Using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people's health at risk. So the law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances to prevent ill health.

COSHH Regulations are designed to protect all workers from exposure to chemicals and other substances in the workplace. If you believe you have been exposed to a hazardous substance at work, then you may be entitled to make a personal injury compensation claim.

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