If those diseases do not kill, the silica victim usually wastes away to death because his clogged lungs transmit insufficient oxygen to his blood. Because silicosis may terminate fatally as long ...

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.