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  1. Good, thorough story in the Minneapolis paper this morning—the Le Sueur, Minnesota, local angle on silicosis and manufactured countertops.

    Sounds complicated! Government, industry, business, epidemiology. Lots to untangle. I'm sticking with Formica.

    "Cambria has become a major Minnesota manufacturer over the last 25 years. The company, whose CEO is prominent Minnesota businessman Marty Davis, generates over $500 million in annual sales, and it employs more than 1,000 people in Minnesota alone.

    "Davis’ family, which once owned a large dairy business and Sun Country Airlines, opened its Le Sueur stone factory in 2001. There, pulverized quartz is mixed with resins and pigments and formed into slabs that are shipped across the country."

    Cambria caught in fallout from lung disease outbreak sickening California workers
    By Mike Hughlett and Christopher Vondracek
    The Minnesota Star Tribune
    startribune.com/cambria-counte

    #OccupationalHealth #silicosis #countertops #Minnesota #LocalAngle

  2. Good, thorough story in the Minneapolis paper this morning—the Le Sueur, Minnesota, local angle on silicosis and manufactured countertops.

    Sounds complicated! Government, industry, business, epidemiology. Lots to untangle. I'm sticking with Formica.

    "Cambria has become a major Minnesota manufacturer over the last 25 years. The company, whose CEO is prominent Minnesota businessman Marty Davis, generates over $500 million in annual sales, and it employs more than 1,000 people in Minnesota alone.

    "Davis’ family, which once owned a large dairy business and Sun Country Airlines, opened its Le Sueur stone factory in 2001. There, pulverized quartz is mixed with resins and pigments and formed into slabs that are shipped across the country."

    Cambria caught in fallout from lung disease outbreak sickening California workers
    By Mike Hughlett and Christopher Vondracek
    The Minnesota Star Tribune
    startribune.com/cambria-counte

    #OccupationalHealth #silicosis #countertops #Minnesota #LocalAngle

  3. Good, thorough story in the Minneapolis paper this morning—the Le Sueur, Minnesota, local angle on silicosis and manufactured countertops.

    Sounds complicated! Government, industry, business, epidemiology. Lots to untangle. I'm sticking with Formica.

    "Cambria has become a major Minnesota manufacturer over the last 25 years. The company, whose CEO is prominent Minnesota businessman Marty Davis, generates over $500 million in annual sales, and it employs more than 1,000 people in Minnesota alone.

    "Davis’ family, which once owned a large dairy business and Sun Country Airlines, opened its Le Sueur stone factory in 2001. There, pulverized quartz is mixed with resins and pigments and formed into slabs that are shipped across the country."

    Cambria caught in fallout from lung disease outbreak sickening California workers
    By Mike Hughlett and Christopher Vondracek
    The Minnesota Star Tribune
    startribune.com/cambria-counte

  4. Good, thorough story in the Minneapolis paper this morning—the Le Sueur, Minnesota, local angle on silicosis and manufactured countertops.

    Sounds complicated! Government, industry, business, epidemiology. Lots to untangle. I'm sticking with Formica.

    "Cambria has become a major Minnesota manufacturer over the last 25 years. The company, whose CEO is prominent Minnesota businessman Marty Davis, generates over $500 million in annual sales, and it employs more than 1,000 people in Minnesota alone.

    "Davis’ family, which once owned a large dairy business and Sun Country Airlines, opened its Le Sueur stone factory in 2001. There, pulverized quartz is mixed with resins and pigments and formed into slabs that are shipped across the country."

    Cambria caught in fallout from lung disease outbreak sickening California workers
    By Mike Hughlett and Christopher Vondracek
    The Minnesota Star Tribune
    startribune.com/cambria-counte

    #OccupationalHealth #silicosis #countertops #Minnesota #LocalAngle

  5. Good, thorough story in the Minneapolis paper this morning—the Le Sueur, Minnesota, local angle on silicosis and manufactured countertops.

    Sounds complicated! Government, industry, business, epidemiology. Lots to untangle. I'm sticking with Formica.

    "Cambria has become a major Minnesota manufacturer over the last 25 years. The company, whose CEO is prominent Minnesota businessman Marty Davis, generates over $500 million in annual sales, and it employs more than 1,000 people in Minnesota alone.

    "Davis’ family, which once owned a large dairy business and Sun Country Airlines, opened its Le Sueur stone factory in 2001. There, pulverized quartz is mixed with resins and pigments and formed into slabs that are shipped across the country."

    Cambria caught in fallout from lung disease outbreak sickening California workers
    By Mike Hughlett and Christopher Vondracek
    The Minnesota Star Tribune
    startribune.com/cambria-counte

    #OccupationalHealth #silicosis #countertops #Minnesota #LocalAngle

  6. LA Times: Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’

    "...Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds.

    These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail...."

    "“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/california/story/2

    #silicosis #publichealth

  7. LA Times: Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’

    "...Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds.

    These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail...."

    "“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/california/story/2

    #silicosis #publichealth

  8. LA Times: Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’

    "...Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds.

    These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail...."

    "“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/california/story/2

    #silicosis #publichealth

  9. LA Times: Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’

    "...Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds.

    These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail...."

    "“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/california/story/2

    #silicosis #publichealth

  10. LA Times: Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’

    "...Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds.

    These workers are developing silicosis, a condition in which microscopic silica dust contained in the stone slabs they grind and polish is cutting up the inside of their lungs until the organs fail...."

    "“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,..."

    (paywall)
    latimes.com/california/story/2

    #silicosis #publichealth

  11. Tunnel workers on major projects repeatedly exposed to excessive silica dust levels

    Tunnel workers carving out some of the nation’s multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects were repeatedly exposed to levels of silica…
    #Australia #AU #Austrlia #Cancer #crossriverrail #dust #Infrastructure #katecole #MauriceBlackburn #metrotunnel #queenslandofficeofindustrialrelations #safety #silica #silicosis #worksafe
    europesays.com/australia/59423/

  12. Tunnel workers on major projects repeatedly exposed to excessive silica dust levels

    Tunnel workers carving out some of the nation’s multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects were repeatedly exposed to levels of silica…
    #NewsBeep #News #Business #AU #Australia #Cancer #CrossRiverRail #dust #infrastructure #katecole #mauriceblackburn #metrotunnel #queenslandofficeofindustrialrelations #safety #Silica #silicosis #worksafe
    newsbeep.com/au/825622/

  13. Tunnel workers on major projects repeatedly exposed to excessive silica dust levels

    Tunnel workers carving out some of the nation’s multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects were repeatedly exposed to levels of silica…
    #NewsBeep #News #Business #AU #Australia #Cancer #CrossRiverRail #dust #infrastructure #katecole #mauriceblackburn #metrotunnel #queenslandofficeofindustrialrelations #safety #Silica #silicosis #worksafe
    newsbeep.com/au/825622/

  14. youtube.com/watch?v=JvWoAjJjIr

    #silicosis #healthandsafety

    This is happening in countries such as the #uk. Wet cutting, which is safer, costs more, but certain companies use dry cutting at the expense of the lives of workers.

  15. Killer kitchen dust leaves family members with deadly lung disease

    Stonemasons who are members of the same family have contracted silicosis from cutting quartz kitchen worktops, MPs have…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #Engineeredstone #GB #KillerKitchens #Safety #Silicosis #UK #UnitedKingdom #Workers'rights
    newsbeep.com/uk/665767/

  16. "H.R. 5437, authored by California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, would dismiss about 500 filed lawsuits — and prohibit additional ones — by workers seeking monetary damages for injuries after inhaling toxic silica dust generated when cutting artificial stone to make kitchen and bathroom countertops." #silicosis kqed.org/news/12086113/califor

  17. "H.R. 5437, authored by California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, would dismiss about 500 filed lawsuits — and prohibit additional ones — by workers seeking monetary damages for injuries after inhaling toxic silica dust generated when cutting artificial stone to make kitchen and bathroom countertops." #silicosis kqed.org/news/12086113/califor

  18. "H.R. 5437, authored by California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, would dismiss about 500 filed lawsuits — and prohibit additional ones — by workers seeking monetary damages for injuries after inhaling toxic silica dust generated when cutting artificial stone to make kitchen and bathroom countertops." #silicosis kqed.org/news/12086113/califor

  19. "H.R. 5437, authored by California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, would dismiss about 500 filed lawsuits — and prohibit additional ones — by workers seeking monetary damages for injuries after inhaling toxic silica dust generated when cutting artificial stone to make kitchen and bathroom countertops." #silicosis kqed.org/news/12086113/califor

  20. "H.R. 5437, authored by California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, would dismiss about 500 filed lawsuits — and prohibit additional ones — by workers seeking monetary damages for injuries after inhaling toxic silica dust generated when cutting artificial stone to make kitchen and bathroom countertops." #silicosis kqed.org/news/12086113/califor

  21. #miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history

    "America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History

    The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.

    (. . .)

    According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.

    Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.

    (. . .)

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.

    (. . .)

    He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.

    Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."

    archive.ph/MgtxC

  22. #miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history

    "America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History

    The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.

    (. . .)

    According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.

    Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.

    (. . .)

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.

    (. . .)

    He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.

    Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."

    archive.ph/MgtxC

  23. #miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history

    "America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History

    The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.

    (. . .)

    According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.

    Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.

    (. . .)

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.

    (. . .)

    He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.

    Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."

    archive.ph/MgtxC

  24. #miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history

    "America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History

    The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.

    (. . .)

    According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.

    Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.

    (. . .)

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.

    (. . .)

    He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.

    Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."

    archive.ph/MgtxC

  25. I’m 29 with incurable lung disease from toxic kitchen dust. It hurts to breathe

    Without his knowledge, Luke Bunker spent his working days caked in toxic dust from cutting quartz countertops for…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #Engineeredstone #GB #KillerKitchens #Silicosis #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/331378/

  26. Massachusetts man dies from deadly lung disease linked to popular kitchen countertops

    Massachusetts health officials announced Tuesday that the state has confirmed its first case of an incurable lung disease…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #dph #engineeredstone #Healthofficials #Lungdisease #Massachusetts #quartzcountertop #silicosis
    newsbeep.com/us/342786/

  27. Massachusetts man dies from deadly lung disease linked to popular kitchen countertops

    Massachusetts health officials announced Tuesday that the state has confirmed its first case of an incurable lung disease…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #dph #engineeredstone #Healthofficials #Lungdisease #Massachusetts #quartzcountertop #silicosis
    newsbeep.com/us/342786/

  28. "Between 1,000 to 1,500 stoneworkers in California could develop #silicosis within the next decade, leading to roughly 285 deaths, according to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA. The state is home to about 5,000 #countertop fabrication workers, predominantly Latino immigrants" kqed.org/news/12064693/califor

  29. "Between 1,000 to 1,500 stoneworkers in California could develop #silicosis within the next decade, leading to roughly 285 deaths, according to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA. The state is home to about 5,000 #countertop fabrication workers, predominantly Latino immigrants" kqed.org/news/12064693/califor

  30. "Between 1,000 to 1,500 stoneworkers in California could develop #silicosis within the next decade, leading to roughly 285 deaths, according to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA. The state is home to about 5,000 #countertop fabrication workers, predominantly Latino immigrants" kqed.org/news/12064693/califor

  31. "Between 1,000 to 1,500 stoneworkers in California could develop #silicosis within the next decade, leading to roughly 285 deaths, according to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA. The state is home to about 5,000 #countertop fabrication workers, predominantly Latino immigrants" kqed.org/news/12064693/califor

  32. "Between 1,000 to 1,500 stoneworkers in California could develop #silicosis within the next decade, leading to roughly 285 deaths, according to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA. The state is home to about 5,000 #countertop fabrication workers, predominantly Latino immigrants" kqed.org/news/12064693/califor

  33. "...The once-active father of four now awaits a double lung transplant. He can no longer support his family or walk a few steps without pausing to catch his breath. Two stonecutter friends died after working with the man-made material, also known as artificial stone or quartz. Three others are on a waitlist for lung transplants, he said...."

    #silicosis #kitchen #countertops #remodeling

  34. "...The once-active father of four now awaits a double lung transplant. He can no longer support his family or walk a few steps without pausing to catch his breath. Two stonecutter friends died after working with the man-made material, also known as artificial stone or quartz. Three others are on a waitlist for lung transplants, he said...."

    #silicosis #kitchen #countertops #remodeling