Silica

Exposures to silica dust, solvents or heavy metals increase the likelihood of developing various forms of myositis, especially more severe forms involving the lungs, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Close to 40% of Hispanic men employed as engineered stone countertop workers with silicosis had an atypical pattern of the disease on CT imaging, according to research presented at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting.

Under a recently finalized rule, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration set a 50 g/m3 full-shift exposure limit on respirable crystalline silica for miners, according to a press release.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration within the U.S. Department of Labor has finalized stricter limits on silica dust exposure for miners, according to a press release from the department.

Lung tissue analysis revealed that deployed military personnel had more silica and other silicates in their lungs than controls, according to results published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

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Researchers found increased amounts of retained dust in the lung tissue of previously deployed military personnel with confirmed lung injury, according to a presenter at the 2022 Geological Society of America Meeting.

Higher levels of crystalline silica were found in the lung tissue of contemporary coal miners in the U.S. compared with the lung tissue of previous generations of coal miners, researchers reported in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Eighteen cases of silicosis in stone fabrication workers have highlighted the occupational risk faced by those who work with engineered stone, according to findings published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.