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Provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), this historic image depic
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Provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), this historic image depicted a number of male industrial workers inside a West Virginia ceramics factory, who were in the process of dipping newly fired bisque forms into glaze, which would then be refired, thereby, imparting a shiny surface to the forms. None of the men were wearing a filtered breathing mask inside this clay-processing environment. Workers should have taken precautions against the possibility of inhaling airborne particulates, which would lead to the chronic pulmonary disease known as pneumoconiosis, or silicosis, or more commonly known as 'grinders' disease', characterized by the formation of nodular fibrotic changes in the lungs. The image was published in the 'Public Health Bulletin', No. 244, 1939.
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CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH
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November 17, 2012