California could require licenses for stonecutting shops amid deaths of young workers yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As growing numbers of countertop cutters in California suffer from an incurable and deadly lung disease, silicosis, lawmakers are seeking to clamp down.
California regulators adopted emergency rules to try to protect laborers who cut countertops from silicosis, an incurable disease that has killed young workers, and head off "an industrial disaster."
California regulators adopted emergency rules to try to protect laborers who cut countertops from silicosis, an incurable disease that has killed young workers, and head off "an industrial disaster."
Silicosis, a disease caused by silica dust produced when workers cut and grind engineered stone, is afflicting workers. What consumers can do about it.