April 3, 2025 In the heart of coal country in Appalachia, a silent epidemic continues to haunt generations of miners and their families:...
Category: Silicosis
Workers who cut quartz countertops are dying of an incurable disease
September 24, 2024 The increasing popularity of quartz countertops in home renovations and new construction is exposing more and more American workers to...
Today’s Mineworkers Face ‘Black Lung’ Resurgence
January 23, 2024 Talk about black lung disease, and immediately, pictures of coal miners covered with soot in the 1930s come to mind....
New Study Examines the Hazards of Silicosis
November 22, 2022 Scientific Reports released a new silicosis study that examines dust emissions from machined engineered stones to understand the hazard for...
OSHA Cracks Down on Silicosis
October 13, 2022 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited West Virginia’s Continental Brick Co. and proposed fines...
Most Common Ways Silica Dust Exposure Happens
May 5, 2022 Since 1968, more than 14,000 workers have died in the United States from a lung disease called silicosis, says the...
How COVID-19 makes Industrial Workers Vulnerable
September 22, 2021 In the United States, an estimated 2.3 million workers are exposed to crystalline silica—a substance that has caused the most...
The Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster – A Tragedy We Cannot Repeat
August 17, 2021 In the opening lyric of John Denver’s signature classic Take me Home, Country Roads, he describes West Virginia as “almost...
Silicosis on the Rise in the Fracking Industry
June 2, 2021 “Fracking” is the common name for a now widely used process to extract oil and gas – hydraulic fracturing. Though...
