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Silicosis Reporting Guidelines | Worker Health and Safety Surveillance
Last Updated: May 2024
Worker Health and Safety Surveillance Silicosis Reporting Guidelines. What to know. State health departments should encourage physicians to report all diagnosed or suspected cases of silicosis. This includes radiologists,…Read more
Nodular silicosis (chronic and accelerated) is slowly progressing and manifests as scarring of the lung tissue. It is typically evident on chest x-ray only after 10 or more years of exposure (chronic silicosis), but may…Read more
Preventing Silicosis and Deaths in Rock Drillers (92-107)
Last Updated: May 2024
Your assistance in this effort will help prevent silicosis-related death and disease, a national goal for health promotion and disease prevention stated in Healthy People 2000 [DHHS 1990]. This Alert describes 23 cases of silicosis…Read more
The most common form of silicosis, chronic silicosis, takes at least 10 years from first exposure to develop and death does not typically occur until many years after that. Onset of silicosis can be faster and…Read more
CDC - Blogs - NIOSH Science Blog – Twenty–Nine Year Summary of Silicosis in Michigan -Read more
Mining and Silicosis
Last Updated: Dec 2024
Tracking silicosis. Tracking of silicosis is not as regular or thorough as tracking of coal workers' pneumoconiosis. However, historic data from the 1990s attributes more than 23% of reported silicosis deaths to…Read more
Even so, mortality surveillance shows that an average of 162 individuals died annually from or with silicosis in the U.S. over the period 2000-2005. According to formulas published by Rosenman et al., the 162 silicosis…Read more
Silica Flour: Silicosis(Crystalline Silica) (81-137)
Last Updated: May 2024
Usually there is little or no respiratory impairment associated with the early stages of simple silicosis. The silica content of the dust to which workers developing simple silicosis are exposed is often less than 30%.…Read more
One case of silicosis associated with engineered stone fabrication was previously reported in the United States from Texas (Friedman, 2015). More recently, 18 cases of silicosis, including two fatalities, have been identified…Read more
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