Every day, 20 to 30 trucks roll into a factory in Minnesota. They're filled with quartz — some of it like a powder, and some of it like sparkling little pebbles, in big white sacks. "It's about 30 ...

A California bill aimed at preventing more stonecutters from contracting a deadly lung disease on the job cleared its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday. The proposed law, SB 20, seeks to expand ...

Leobardo Segura Meza, 27, of Pacoima suffers from silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has been afflicting workers who cut and polish engineered stone high in crystalline silica. (Mel Melcon / ...

Crystalline silica particles generated during dry cutting are extremely fine and easily inhaled. Once inside the lungs, they trigger chronic immune activation, causing irreversible scarring. Unlike ...

The men are haggard, starved of breath and tethered to oxygen tanks. Neither will live to an old age; without lung transplants, both may die within a year. Juan Gonzalez Morin, 36, and Gustavo Reyes ...

More and more cases of countertop workers getting sick indicates the hazards are cutting Silestone, a material made of quartz that releases dangerous silica. Dec 05, 2019 United States physicians have ...

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of the Pacoima neighborhood in Los Angeles, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock.