Question 10941 — work accidents and occupational diseases

Summary

Mrs. Marine Le Pen draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the sometimes random recognition of silicosis as an occupational disease. Many former miners have difficulty in establishing the link between the activity they carried out and the pathologies from which they suffer today. Even more serious, the widows of minors who died of an associated illness - cancer, for example - are deprived of surviving spouse's pension to which they can claim, on the pretext that silicosis, even medically established, is not the sole or immediate cause of the death of their spouse. Finally, the status of silicosis patients is much more restrictive in terms of compensation than that granted to victims of prolonged exposure to asbestos (absence of an equivalent from the Asbestos Victims Compensation Fund, in particular), while the after-effects of these two pathologies are essentially identical: physical pain, moral suffering, loss of quality of life, aesthetic damage. She invites him to establish a reflection on these subjects involving the parties concerned (ministry, patient associations, professional organizations, social security) and questions him on the possibility of aligning the types of compensation likely to be paid to victims of silicosis over those attributed to victims of asbestos.

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