Hundreds of California Stone Workers Fall Ill With Incurable Silicosis Linked to Quartz Countertops

At least 31 workers have died and nearly 600 have fallen ill with incurable silicosis from occupational exposure to stone countertop dust.

In the fabrication shops of California, a preventable disease has claimed dozens of lives and scarred the lungs of nearly six hundred workers who cut and shaped the engineered stone countertops that grace modern kitchens. Silicosis — ancient in origin, incurable in nature — has found a new and devastating host in the engineered quartz industry, where silica content runs as high as ninety percent and protective measures have too often been absent or ignored. The human cost falls almost entirely on immigrant laborers working in small, under-regulated shops, far removed from the consumers whose a

Hundreds of California Stone Workers Fall Ill With Incurable Silicosis Linked to Quartz Countertops

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