Tag: silicosis

Jury finds stone companies at fault in lawsuit by countertop cutter sick with silicosis

A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a 34-year-old...

Incurable silicosis cost a countertop cutter his lungs. Are these companies at fault?

From morning to evening, six days a week, Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez spent his days cutting engineered stone, a man-made product that has...

Doctors said cutting countertops destroyed his lungs. He had to fight for workers' comp

By the time that Dennys Rene Rivas Williams had fallen so ill that he needed new lungs, physicians at Olive View-UCLA Medical...