Silicosis is a long-term lung disease caused by inhaling large amounts of crystalline silica dust, usually over many years.

Exposure to silica dust soared to more than 200 times the workplace safety standard during the Sydney Metro construction, new ...

Tunnel workers cutting the gigantic passages for Sydney's Metros have been exposed to toxic silica dust levels far exceeding those working in the ...

Black lung disease and silicosis have roots in the industrial revolution, and beryllium disease dates to before World War II, ...

The Tshiamiso Trust has urged all former gold mineworkers and their families to check if they are eligible to lodge a claim ...

Documents obtained by the Australian Workers Union (AWU) through freedom of information laws show tunnellers are exposed to ...

In January 2019, Andrew Klohk was summoned to the Sydney CBD offices of the state insurer, icare, for his first lung function ...

With respirable crystalline silica a major cause of silicosis – a chronic lung condition that kills up to 1,000 people a year ...

Father-of-three Marek Marzec, who has lung disease silicosis, says the dust he inhaled while cutting trendy quartz kitchen worktops has left him 'unable to breathe' and 'in terrible pain'.