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Torts/Personal Injury,
Labor/Employment

Jun. 11, 2024

A license to kill is no solution

A proposal to license stone countertop fabrication shops will not prevent silicosis among workers. Artificial stone contains high levels of silica, is too deadly to be used safely, and disproportionately harms young immigrant workers.

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In her May 29 article published in the Los Angeles Times, “California could require licenses for stonecutting shops amid deaths of young workers,” Emily Alpert Reyes reports that Jim Hieb, chief executive of the stone industry trade association, suggests that licensing stone countertop fabrication shops will prevent severe illness and death to thousands of young Hispanic immigrant workers from exposure to artificial stone dust.

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