Posted on 10/02/2019 12:38:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
“...a new report on 18 cases of illness, including two deaths...”
Out of 330,000,000 Americans.
Time to panic.
Particle masks are readily available - I always wear one when sanding, grinding or sweeping the shop.
I thought Round-Up was going to kill everyone first.
I guess, nobody thought of fitting the worker with a simple dust respirator, along with having portable or stationary ventilation.
These are probably illegal alien workers, working in private shops.
Between that and Vaping, we’re all gonna die!.................
Wear a mask.
Vaping will kill us all......................How long before ‘2nd Hand Vaping’ is a problem?....................
Plaintiff lawyers are rejoicing. Expect to see a steady stream of engineered stone worker advertisements from lawyers.
If ever there was a case for robotic manufacturing, this is it.
We have at least 10 of these places around town and we’re a small town......................
Yep, along with Vaping, which I expect to come real soon..................
Dangerous world out there.
I had a media blast cabinet in my garage for years-restore old cars.
It was sealed tight but every time I used it very fine silica was all over the garage. Stuff just finds a way out.
I wore a mask but what about the stuff laying around.
Got rid of the cabinet few years back and pay a local shop who’s operators wear a space suit to do all my blasting.
Not worth the health risk.
Many of Vermont’s early granite sculptors gave their lives to the art that fills America’s cemeteries, public spaces, and buildings. The carving of granite involves the shattering of the crystals that make up the rock, which creates a tremendous amount of silica dust that harms the lungs of the stone workers. Sculptors worked in clouds of dust, leaning in close to their work, breathing in that silica dust for hours a day.
Death caused by silicosis was so widespread at the end of the nineteenth century that Saturday night benefits for the families of granite workers were commonplace. The breakthrough in solving the silicosis problem came in 1937 when $300,000 ($24 million in 2016 funds) worth of ventilation equipment was installed in eighty of Vermont’s granite plants. This funding made dust control practically universal in the industry and essentially eliminated the silicosis problem.
This has been a known problem for a hundred years or more.
I worked in a granite shop, and it was always dusty from cutting sinks. We did wear particle masks but it wasn’t enough to keep out of you nose and such. Polishing was never an issue as we never dry polished. Everything was done with water, except the sink cutting.
Now they have water-jets and CNC saws with water coolants to cut. This really helps trap the dusts particles.
Ban kitchen counter tops.
Those style of mask are about worthless. Buy a quality mask if you need one.
As long as it doesn’t delay me getting my new one..
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