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600+ California Stonecutters Diagnosed With Deadly Silicosis: What Workers Need to Know
You went to work every day, cut and polished countertops, and provided for your family. Now you’re struggling to breathe, and a doctor has told you your lungs are permanently scarred. If that’s your story — or the story of someone you love — you’re not alone, and what happened to you may not have been your fault.
A recent Los Angeles Times investigation revealed something alarming: more than 600 California stonecutters, most of them Latino men working in the San Fernando Valley, have been diagnosed with silicosis — an incurable, often fatal lung disease. And the numbers are climbing fast.