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Unions warn of industrial health epidemic
Assistant Secretary of Australian Council of Trade Unions' Liam O'Brien (AAP).jpg
Federal and state workplace safety ministers will next week consider banning popular engineered stone products over links to an incurable lung disease. Silicosis can be caused by inhaling crystalline silica particles and more than six hundred thousand workers in stone cutting industries are being exposed to the dust.
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