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 ...

Silicosis is an occupational disease that can destroy the lungs of workers who inhale particles of dust known as repairable crystalline silica (RCS) when cutting stone or rock without adequate ...

damages their lungs enormously and contributes to disease like silicosis and in some cases lung cancer. And these are diseases that are not curable, they largely end people's working lives ...

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 ...