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California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease

Por: Los Angeles Times Science September 24, 2023

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Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock. Pale dust rose around them as they worked. Many went without masks. Some had water spurting from their machines, but others had nothing to tamp down the powder rising in the air. Nobody uses water, one man in a Dodgers cap said in Spanish when Maria Cabrera approached, holding... + full article



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