Silicosis, a lung disease associated with the exposure to crystalline silica, has been afflicting young workers, primarily Latino immigrants who are exposed to the silica dust when workers are cutting ...

RED WING — Demand for silica sand has driven what some are calling "the new gold rush." Since 2008, Wisconsin has built 16 silica sand mines. Eleven more have recently been approved and at least 14 ...

Silicosis is an incurable but entirely preventable lung disease. It has only one cause: breathing in too much silica dust. This is a risk in several industries, including tunneling, stone masonry and ...

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Tribune and other news outlets have just reported the case of a man, José Gómez, who required a lung transplant after severe lung damage caused ...

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Around this time last year, a Los Angeles County jury passed down a landmark judgment in the case of Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez—a 34-year-old stonecutter who had contracted the respiratory illness ...

In their Sept. 9 op-ed “What can Illinois do to better protect workers from inhaling silica dust,” professors Linda Forst and Lee Friedman, while well intended, incorrectly state that “prevention of ...

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Workers may get respite from breathing the toxic dust that remains omnipresent in U.S. mining operations, despite decades of evidence of its deadly consequences. The federal Mine Safety and Health ...

*Related video above: What are PFAS, so-called ‘forever chemicals’? (WHTM) — You have probably seen silica gel packets in such places as shoeboxes, dried food and even bubble wrap. It’s a white packet ...