Thirteen tunnellers on one single roadway project have been diagnosed with silicosis. Their employer is in the crosshairs.

The Australian Workers' Union has spoken out strongly after workers as young as 32 building a road tunnel in Sydney contracted a deadly lung disease.

At the Jersey Shore, you’ll hear the occasional hum of an electric golf cart or strident seagull. Also inevitable, it seems, ...

There are many types of activities that produce crystalline silica dust which could result in worker exposure ... such as foundry work and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is also a source of ...

and cutting or crushing stone result in worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica dust. Industrial sand used in certain operations, such as foundry work and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), is ...

"Inhalation of crystalline silica has been linked to lung ... OSHA should be your primary source of information pertaining to dust suppression and containment on the jobsite.

Most critically, there is an abundance of silica dust in addition to iron dust from basalt and nanophase iron, both of which are reactive to the lungs and can cause respiratory diseases.

He said the road headers used in the tunnelling projects exposed workers to levels of silica dust far greater than ... is preventing it at the source which means adequate ventilation, wetting ...