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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 292.300 (2026)

Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases

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  292.300.  Employer to provide protection to employees from diseases. — That every employer of labor in this state engaged in carrying on any work, trade or process which may produce any illness or disease peculiar to the work or process carried on, or which subjects the employee to the danger of illness or disease incident to such work, trade or process, to which employees are exposed, shall for the protection of all employees engaged in such work, trade or process, adopt and provide approved and effective devices, means or methods for the prevention of such industrial or occupational diseases as are incident to such work, trade or process.

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(RSMo 1939 § 10211)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 13252; 1919 § 6817

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1958–2012 · leading case: Marie v. Stand. Steel Works, 319 S.W.2d 871 (Mo. 1959).
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Marie v. Stand. Steel Works, 319 S.W.2d 871 (Mo. 1959). · cites it 6× “any process, or manufacture, or labor in this state in which antimony, arsenic, brass, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, zinc, their alloys or salts or any poisonous chemicals, minerals, acids, fumes, vapors, gases, or other substances, are generated or used, employed or…”
Moreland v. Eagle Picher Tech., LLC, 362 S.W.3d 491 (Mo. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 6× “Additionally, the ALJ awarded Moreland a 15 percent penalty of all past medical expenses, past permanent total disability *502 benefits, and future permanent total disability benefits based upon Eagle Picher’s violations of sections 292.300, 292.310 and 292.320. The award…”
McGhee v. W.R. Grace & Co., 312 S.W.3d 447 (Mo. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 3× “Section 292.300 requires: That every employer of labor in this state engaged in carrying on any work, trade or process which may produce any illness or disease peculiar to the work or process carried on, or which subjects the employee to the danger of illness or disease incident…”
Marie v. Stand. Steel Works, 311 S.W.2d 368 (Mo. Ct. App. 1958). “§ 292.300 et seq. In the present Vernon’s Annotated Statutes such sections are under the general title “Prevention of Occupational Diseases.”
Oggesen v. Gen. Cable Corp., 174 F. Supp. 225 (E.D. Mo. 1959). · cites it 3× “” Judge Storckman, writing the unanimous Opinion therein, for the entire ■court, pointed out that § 292.300 required •employers to provide protection to employees from diseases and § 292.”
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