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Chinese Jewelry Workers Victims of Silicosis

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Workers in the Chinese jewelry industry are ailing and dying of silicosis, caused by inhaling silicon particles, or silica dust, in the course of their work cutting gemstones.
 
Working conditions in the factories included unventilated rooms and no face mask protection.
 
The disease takes years to set in after exposure but then is progressive and fatal.
 
Some workers, their families and labor unions are trying to sue but companies merely change their names and deny responsibility. The little money that has been collected goes to legal and medical bills.

Deadly dust of gem trade kills Chinese

The Sunday Times - 3/25/2006 6:38 PM

ONE by one, hundreds of Chinese workers are starting to die of an incurable lung disease contracted in appalling conditions inside factories supplying the international jewellery trade.
 
The epidemic of silicosis, caused by inhaling fine dust, has turned into a scandal that the jewellery industry fears may cause more damage to its reputation than the outcry over “con
 
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