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

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 ...

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 ...