Gas Workers Risk Silica Exposure

April 10, 2014

By IAN HICKS Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

WHEELING – Breathing only a tiny amount of silica dust per day – enough, roughly, to cover Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s nose on a dime – can put a worker at risk for myriad health problems, according to Michael Breitenstein of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.   (Read more…) (Also see other articles on this GasVets’ News and Research page.)