When silica dust enters the lungs it can cause swelling and gradually leads to areas of hardened and scarred lung tissue (fibrosis) Silica dust becomes trapped inside the alveoli, the tiny air ...

The engineered surfaces have already been linked to more than a dozen UK cases of a lethal lung disease called artificial stone silicosis. At least two people in the UK have died after working ...

Silicosis is a long-term lung disease caused by inhaling large amounts of crystalline silica dust, usually over many years.

He is unaware that with each breath his lungs carry more than just fatigue. They are lined with the inhaled red dust from which springs a slow, silent disease – silicosis. Silicosis is not new.

The miners contracted silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling dust from gold-bearing rocks. The dust lodges in the lungs, causing permanent scarring and can often lead to tuberculosis.

All of their husbands had died while working in the mines as they succumbed to silicosis, an incurable lung disease. Silicosis, which kills thousands around the world, is caused by inhaling silica ...