Global Update: Silicosis From Work on Blue Jeans Killed Workers, Study Says

Monday, October 31, 2011 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

Six of 32 young male workers who went to a hospital with breathing problems died, and 16 others had disabling lung damage from breathing the fine sand, the study found.

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