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Company failed to protect workers who now need lung transplants, regulators say

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Chicago manufacturer's employees labored in a haze of dust and were exposed to dangerous levels of silica, according to OSHA.

A Chicago countertop manufacturer failed to protect its workers from silica exposure, leaving a father and son in need of lung transplants, federal labor officials said.Florenza Marble & Granite exposed employees to silica levels up to six times greater than permissible, leaving a 31-year worker, his 59-year-old father and a co-worker with silicosis, an incurable lung disease, the U.S. Department of Labor said Monday in a news release.

Silica dust risksA hundred times smaller than a grain of sand, silica dust can lead to lung cancer and silicosis, an irreversible scarring and stiffening of the lungs, among other conditions, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.Florenza Marble and owner Brad Karp did not have a safety program to monitor its six workers.

 

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