Kitchen countertop workers are dying. Some lawmakers want to ban their lawsuits

Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, ...
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California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease

Leobardo Segura Meza, 27, of Pacoima suffers from silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has been afflicting workers who cut and polish engineered stone high in crystalline silica. (Mel Melcon / ...
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Incurable silicosis cost a countertop cutter his lungs. Are these companies at fault?

Caesarstone, which has a facility in Sun Valley, is one of the companies named in an L.A. County lawsuit. (Zoe Cranfill / Los Angeles Times) From morning to evening, six days a week, Gustavo Reyes ...
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Stone Industry Proposes Self-Policing as California Weighs Artificial Stone Ban

As California regulators consider banning high-silica engineered stone linked to deadly silicosis, countertop manufacturers ...
KQED

As California Silicosis Cases Rise, Engineered Stone Industry Seeks Immunity in DC

Artificial stone manufacturers facing hundreds of silicosis lawsuits in California urged lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to ...
Los Angeles Times

Engineered stone counter tops are killing workers at high rates. What can consumers do about it?

Silicosis, a lung disease associated with the exposure to crystalline silica, has been afflicting young workers, primarily Latino immigrants who are exposed to the silica dust when workers are cutting ...
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'His death was preventable': The father-of-three killed by kitchen worktop dust

The family of a stonemason who died from silicosis after cutting quartz kitchen worktops has called for the material to be banned. Marek Marzec, 48, died in November last year just seven months after ...
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Stone countertops cause ‘incurable’ lung disease—Massachusetts confirms link

A 40-year-old Hispanic man from Massachusetts is the state's first confirmed case of silicosis from working with engineered stone countertops. He spent 14 years cutting, polishing, and installing ...
Los Angeles Times

California countertop workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known years earlier

When Wendy Solano first heard the word “silicosis,” her husband Jose Raul Garcia Leon was already suffering from the incurable disease that would kill him. After immigrating from Mexico, the father of ...
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Incurable silicosis cost a countertop cutter his lungs. Are these companies at fault?

From morning to evening, six days a week, Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez spent his days cutting engineered stone, a man-made product that has become a popular choice for kitchen and bathroom countertops. The ...