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12 October 2018

The biggest lung disease crisis since asbestos: Our love of stone kitchen benchtops is killing workers

Teola
12 October 2018
By Michael Atkin

By Michael Atkin

Doctors are worried Australia is facing the worst occupational lung disease crisis since the peak of the asbestos disaster.

Stonemasons who cut engineered stone into a popular type of kitchen benchtop are contracting accelerated silicosis at alarming levels, after being exposed to unsafe levels of silica dust

Read more - abc.net.au

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