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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 male industrial worker who was inside a West Virginia ceramics factory, seen here as he was very carefully shoveling finely-ground quartz, which would become one of the ingredients in the creation of clay. Working within a 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. Note that this man was not wearing a filtered breathing mask, thereby, increasing his chances of contracting silicosis. 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