WC Insurers Waiting For Silica Dust to Settle
Industry on alert to keep claims in the workers comp system and out of the courts
As is so often the case in the world of occupational disease, it's the little things that get you. Anytime workers chip, cut, crush, drill, grind, blast or sift objects that contain quartz, microscopic dust particles may be released, lodge in the lungs, and lead to the formation of scar tissue that reduces the lungs' ability to extract oxygen from the air.
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