industrial disease

American  

noun

1. occupational disease.

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industrial disease British  

noun

1. any disease to which workers in a particular industry are prone

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Etymology

Origin of industrial disease

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

At the inquest the family had argued for a conclusion of death by industrial disease, while the health board had made the case for ruling that the death was from natural causes.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2023

A coroner concluded 65-year-old Gareth Roberts died of "industrial disease", having probably contracted Covid-19 at work.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2023

Mike Myers calls celebrity “the industrial disease of creativity.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

But the hardship and wretchedness of this year's "starvation strike" appeared to be not the result of sudden conflict, but the festering of a chronic industrial disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

The importance of these movements for us consists in their firm but tacit recognition of the fact, that an excessive supply of unskilled labour lies at the root of the industrial disease of "sweating."

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)