- Workers (especially immigrants) making artificial-stone slabs for popular kitchen countertops are developing silicosis, a potentially deadly, irreversible lung disease from tiny particles of toxic dust, researchers found. No country has yet banned the product. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2807615 311 comments science
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- California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease https://news.yahoo.com/california-workers-cut-countertops-dying-100021788.html 455 comments
- Fancy quartz countertops are killing people: new study https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/fancy-quartz-countertops-are-killing-people-new-study/ 12 comments
- Young men making quartz countertops are facing lung damage. One state is taking action https://text.npr.org/1189745247 2 comments
- California workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-24/silicosis-countertop-workers-engineered-stone 0 comments