Scillicosis

[Old Salt]

Not sure if anyone has seen this but thought it worth signposting

Ban kitchen stone or risk deadly lung disease in hundreds of workers, says medic — inews

Dr Ryan Hoy, a respiratory doctor who treats more than 100 of the 579 silicosis patients in Australia, describes it as the worst health crisis he has seen

apple.news

 

[Stivino]

That has been known about for at least 200 years.
It killed most of the men building The Scott Monument in Edinburgh.
The dust from the stone was the reason most stone masons had big moustaches and beards, to act as filters.

 

[Old Salt]

Agreed, but that was natural stone and these aussies were working with engineered stone. I appreciate they should have been aware in the present day H&S regime, but obviously they didnt put 2 and 2 together.

Relevant with the amount of people having these types of worktops fitted.

 

[Mottie]

We bought our Quartz worktop direct from the place that cuts them. It was based on a farm off the lanes near us. When we visited, we should have worn wellies - the whole yard was covered in dust and it was billowing out of the workshops. The guvnor who came outside and showed us some samples looked like he had been flour bombed. I remember thinking that that dust can’t be any good for him.

 

[foxhole]

My local quartz suppliers workshop looks like a car wash, everything is worked soaking wet, only saw white slurry where dust was washed away.