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The Australian Senate is investigating the high rate of deaths resulting from toxic silica dust exposure and whether safeguards were inadequate thus leading to liability.
 
Silica dust in particular results from sandblasting with silica, a practice that was banned in some countries as long as sixty years ago but was only banned in Victoria, Australia in 2002.
 
Silica dust exposure causes cancer, silicosis and other health problems.

A breathless call for justice

The Age - 3/20/2006 8:19 AM

With a Senate inquiry investigating the industrial epidemic of deaths from toxic dust exposure, Mr Karakasch, 60, is adamant that industry and government must share responsibility.
 
"The UK banned abrasive blasting with silica in 1949. NSW banned sandblasting with silica in 1959," Mr Karakasch said. "The World Health Organisation said it was carcinogenic in 1996. But Victoria didn't ban it until 2002. What possible excuse could there be for successive Victorian governments waiting for decades to ban a practice that was viewed as deadly in our neighbouring sta
 
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