Health officials warn of a preventable but potentially fatal lung disease linked to quartz countertops. Massachusetts reported its first silicosis case involved a stone worker.

A popular material for kitchen countertops has been linked to a life-threatening lung disease, silicosis. Health officials in Massachusetts just announced the first confirmed case in the stone countertop industry in the state. Cases of silicosis are increasing in the stone countertop industry.

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Dust from popular countertop material that causes incurable lung disease found in Massachusetts worker - The disease has previously resulted in dozens of deaths in California and across the country

Health officials confirmed Massachusetts’ first case of silicosis, an incurable and life-threatening lung disease, warning that this suggests that additional, unconfirmed cases could exist. The patient spent the past 14 years working for a stone countertop fabrication and installation company.

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Bolivian crocidolite was used in approximately 13 billion Kent Micronite cigarette filters, manufactured from March 1952 until May 1956. Beyond the individual risks of tobacco smoke and asbestos fibers, the two carcinogens work together in a deadly synergy, creating a risk far greater than the sum of their parts.

"I have always hoped that we would be able to keep the disease in check with medication, and the development has actually been quite slow up until now," Crown Princess Mette-Marit shared.

She was diagnosed with chronic lung disease in 2018.