An audit of Queensland’s manufacturing stone industry has revealed 98 workers have contracted the potentially deadly lung disease silicosis — 15 of those terminal — with more than 550 workplace breaches in what health experts are calling a major epidemic. The youngest sufferer diagnosed so far was 23 years old and had worked in the industry for six years
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