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 ...

It may now be time to ban artificial stone—a firm favourite for kitchen worktops in the UK— to ward off the incurable lung disease caused by its manufacturing and fitting, say a team of doctors in the ...

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 ...

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 ...