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LA City Council Trio Takes Aim at Lung Disease Impacting Countertop Workers

“Silicosis disproportionately affects low-income, immigrant workers in industries such as construction and manufacturing,” Rodriguez said in a statement.

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CalEPA Announces First Recipients of Environmental Justice Action Grants

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Granite Countertop Workers receiving respirator masks

California embraces emergency rules to protect countertop workers from incurable silicosis

The deaths of young workers who cut kitchen and bathroom countertops prompted a state board to back emergency safety measures Thursday aimed at preventing silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has risen along with the booming popularity of engineered stone.

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Silicosis: la enfermedad que está afectando la salud de trabajadores de la construcción en California

LOS ÁNGELES - Para muchos trabajadores, cortar algunos elegantes muebles para las cocinas y baños puede ser nocivo para la salud.

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California Workers Who Cut Countertops Are Dying of an Incurable Disease

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock. Pale dust rose around them as they worked. Many went without masks.

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