Mondragon said he is just now getting warnings about the dangers of engineered stone cutting. "It's scary just to know that we're out here making a living and people get sick over some dust that ...

Segura-Meza wore a mask and used tools to reduce dust from cutting and grinding the engineered stone, but still, in February 2022, he went to the emergency room with shortness of breath ...

Much of the court case revolved around the kinds of measures needed to protect workers from silica dust from engineered stone, as a string of experts testified about the risks of cutting such slabs.

California workplace regulators have committed to fast-tracking the development of new rules to protect countertop fabrication workers who are inhaling toxic silica dust that doctors ... that with ...