Safety Mate’s Skytec 3030V respirator is keeping workers in heavy industries protected against the dangers of silica.

While the countertops are not a danger to the consumers who've put them in their homes, if inhaled during fabrication, can ...

The Los Angeles City Council will consider requiring more protections for workers who are at risk of developing silicosis, an ancient lung disease that primarily affects synthetic countertop ...

Today, we’re making it clear that no job should be a death sentence.” That should go without saying, but acting U.S. Labor ...

Morris’s talk, titled "The Silicosis Epidemic," describes the nation’s largest modern workplace cluster of silicosis, discovered in artificial-stone fabricators in Southern California.

Medical experts say data is still short on the full extent of diseases tied to silica dust — silicosis, lung cancer and black lung. The new rule will impose safeguards and collect data about ...

Silicosis, according to the American Lung Association, is a lung disease caused by breathing in tiny bits of silica dust, which is a byproduct of cutting, grinding and molding engineered stone ...

Council members Imelda Padilla, Bob Blumenfield and Monica Rodriguez co-introduced a set of motions Wednesday targeting silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling large amounts of ...

KWEKWE has been recording an increase in cases of silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhalation of dust containing crystalline silica, an abundant natural material found in stone ...

While the countertops are not a danger to the consumers who've put them in their homes, if inhaled during fabrication, can cause silicosis, which destroys the lungs. Workers who cut and shape those ...