New York Labor Codes 47 206
From Wcc
§ Presumption as to the cause of disease
If the employee, at or immediately before the date of disablement, was employed in any process mentioned in the second column of the schedule of diseases in subdivision 2 of section 3, and his disease is the disease in the first column of such schedule set opposite the description of the process, the disease presumptively shall be deemed to have been due to the nature of that employment. Any exposure to the hazards of compressed air after July 1, 1946 shall be presumed, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary, to be injurious exposure. Any exposure to the hazards of harmful dust in this state for a period of sixty days after September 1, 1935, shall be presumed, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary, to be an injurious exposure.
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