Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, September 11, 2024
By: Jon Campisi

Regulators have stepped up efforts to mitigate occupational exposure to silica dust and the costly treatment of lung diseases often associated with stone-cutting fabrication work.

In August, eight years after the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a silica standard providing safeguards for workers, the agency fined a Chicago countertop manufacturer more than $1 million after learning that an employee required a double lung transplant after suffering “accelerated silicosis.” Read more.