California Quartz Workers Face Silicosis Epidemic: Hundreds Sickened, Dozens Dead

At least 31 workers have died from silicosis, with nearly 600 sickened by the incurable lung disease linked to quartz countertop work.

In the fabrication shops of California, hundreds of workers who spent their days cutting engineered quartz countertops have been quietly claimed by silicosis — an incurable, progressive scarring of the lungs caused by inhaling crystalline silica dust. At least thirty-one have died, and nearly six hundred carry the disease in their bodies, many of them in the prime of their working lives. The outbreak is not a story of an unknown hazard discovered too late, but of a known danger insufficiently guarded against as an industry boomed and a generation of laborers paid the price in breath. It asks,

California Quartz Workers Face Silicosis Epidemic: Hundreds Sickened, Dozens Dead

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