A DAD-OF-THREE who developed a lung disease after years of cutting kitchen worktops in “appalling working conditions” has ...

A growing number of these countertop workers are developing silicosis, a serious and long-term lung disease, according to a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological ...

Calls have risen in the UK to consider a ban on quartz based work top, which when cut, produces large amounts of silica dust ...

Father-of-three Marek Marzec, 48, has died after an illness caused by lethal dust from cutting quartz kitchen worktops left ...

California regulators voted to continue imposing workplace rules to protect countertop cutters from silicosis, an incurable ...

Known as silicosis or 'black lung', it is effectively a death sentence unless the person undergoes lung transplants, which only buy them a handful of years. The condition was previously thought to ...

A Scots grandad is set to sue a brickworks after being diagnosed with an incurable lung disease .. John McCrae, 79, claims he ...

Safe to Work sat down with the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists to discuss what can be done to protect workers ...

He was being treated at the Whittington Hospital under the care of leading occupational lung disease expert Dr Jo Feary, from the Royal Brompton Hospital. However, his silicosis - a long-term lung ...

Marek Marzec, 48, died of silicosis and described working in a 'tornado' of dust in workshops cutting artificial stone ...