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Manufactured Stone Is Killing Stonecutters

Silicosis is a lethal workplace illness that killed thousands each year up through the 1960s. In recent decades, thanks to union workplace safety fights, it became much rarer. Annual deaths dropped to the hundreds.

Annual deaths dropped to the hundreds. The disease affected mostly older workers with longer exposures. So it was hard for s.

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