The site is surrounded by homes and residents have complained about the dust for years.

Leobardo Segura Meza is 27 years old. He is a migrant worker who came to the U.S. in 2012, started work as a engineered stone countertop cutter and by 2022 was on the transplant list to replace ...

A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a 34-year-old stonecutter afflicted with an incurable disease. In a decision ...

Sponsors of a new bill want to give the industry immunity from lawsuits brought by injured employees. That will kill even more workers, experts warn.

Workers making artificial-stone slabs for the most popular type of countertops sold in the United States are developing a potentially deadly, irreversible lung disease from tiny particles of toxic ...

A former stoneworker named Lopez sat confined to his East Bay home, breathing with the help of a whirring oxygen supply machine through clear tubes pronged to his nostrils. After years of making ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) recently reported its first confirmed case of silicosis associated with ...

Dozens of young Latino men in California have developed severe lung disease, and at least 10 have died, after working in shops that make kitchen and bathroom countertops. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce ...

Renee Carey has previously received funding from the Australian Council of Trade Unions. She is a member of the Occupational Lung Disease Network Steering Committee formed by Lung Foundation Australia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a ...