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Public health
fromSilicon Canals
13 hours ago

This popular kitchen countertop could cause life-threatening lung disease, experts warn - Silicon Canals

Engineered quartz countertops release extremely high silica dust during fabrication, causing widespread silicosis among workers and creating an urgent occupational health crisis.
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

Kitchen countertop workers are dying. Some lawmakers want to ban their lawsuits

They've got it backwards. It's not the lawsuits that should be banned, it's the stone slabs that should be banned, because they are deadly and they cannot be fabricated safely,
Public health
#black-lung
fromFortune
3 months ago
US politics

'It seems like they don't care about us': Rural America ruptured as coal miners protest lax rule enforcement linked to black lung | Fortune

fromFortune
3 months ago
US politics

'It seems like they don't care about us': Rural America ruptured as coal miners protest lax rule enforcement linked to black lung | Fortune

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