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CFMEU to ban engineered stone benchtops that cause silicosis disease

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 23, 2022
Tradies should protest if the government does not band exports of deadly engineered stone benchtops, according to an Australian building union. Hundreds of workers in NSW, Victoria, and Queensland have developed potentially lethal silicosis, a long-term lung disease caused by inhaling large sws of silica dust. Joshua Suwa (left), as well as Hak Kim (right) who needs a lung transplant, and Joanna McNeill, who worked at a quarry, have the condition.