{"id":338165,"date":"2026-09-04T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338165\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:38:09","slug":"nyc-issues-silicosis-health-warning-for-engineered-stone-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338165\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Issues Silicosis Health Warning for Engineered Stone Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City health officials have identified at least seven suspected cases of silicosis in workers exposed to engineered stone in the state, including one recent death in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare providers in the state should consider silicosis when evaluating patients who work in construction or mining, or cut engineered stone, <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutblaw.com\/bmKZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a notice issued<\/a> Thursday by Toni Eyssallenne, chief medical officer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-terminal-id=\"TD7YGGKIJHDO\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/next-black-lung-countertop-silica-dust-cases-pile-up-in-courts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release signals that silicosis cases<\/a> are now being increasingly recognized outside of California as more states enact medical surveillance for the occupational health disease. <\/p>\n<p>While no national &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City health officials have identified at least seven suspected cases of silicosis in workers exposed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43085,9,56,63,65,64,127032,127030,127031],"class_list":["post-338165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-mining","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-workplace-chemical-exposure","tag-workplace-dust","tag-workplace-medical-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}