Construction workers being diagnosed with silicosis in their 30s is unacceptable, and something needs to change, says ...

Minerals play a critical role in the performance of modern roofing materials and a wide range of building products. By enhancing UV resistance, adding weight and stability and supporting adhesion and ...

OSHA is investigating after they got a complaint that in January staff and visitors were exposed to silica, a dust that can ...

Zimbabwe is quietly losing an entire generation of young men to mining-related silica dust; a slow and devastating killer ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) recently reported its first confirmed case of silicosis associated with ...

Brayton Purcell LLP has submitted a detailed letter to the United States Congress and the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board outlining the severity, scope, and causes of the ...

Engineered stone countertops are found in kitchens nationwide, but some workers who cut these surfaces are facing a silent health crisis with a deadly toll.

Sponsors of a new bill want to give the industry immunity from lawsuits brought by injured employees. That will kill even ...

As California regulators consider banning high-silica engineered stone linked to deadly silicosis, countertop manufacturers ...

Artificial stone manufacturers facing hundreds of silicosis lawsuits in California urged lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to ...

In a push to prevent countertop cutters' deaths, California is discussing whether to ban the cutting of so-called engineered stone, quartz, which emits the lung-damaging dust when cut. But at least ...

Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, ...