Asbestos and Silica Resources
Center for Justice & Democracy, June 2010: Asbestos Cases Are NOT Overwhelming US Courts. Learn more.
CDC - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 18, 2008: Silicosis-Related Years of Potential Life Lost Before Age 65 Years --- United States, 1968--2005. Occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica occurs in construction, mining, manufacturing, and other industries and can result in silicosis and other lung diseases. Classic (chronic) silicosis results from exposure to relatively low concentrations of respirable crystalline silica for 10 years. Exposure to higher concentrations of silica for 5--10 years can cause accelerated silicosis, and symptoms of acute silicosis can sometimes develop within weeks of initial exposure to extreme concentrations of silica. Deaths in young adults from acute or accelerated silicosis generally reflect more recent and intense exposures. Learn more.
NIOSH: Chart - Asbestosis, Age-adjusted death rates by state, U.S. residents age 15 and over, 1996–2005. Access chart.
Environmental Working Group: A Slow Death in Texas -Asbestos Mortality on the rise in the Lone Star State (2005). At least 259 Texans died in 2002 from just two forms of asbestos disease, according to the most recent data from the National Centers for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control, obtained by the Washington, DC based EWG Action Fund. Mortality is divided roughly evenly between the two diseases, with 132 reported deaths from asbestosis and 127 reported mesothelioma fatalities. More than one third of the deaths in 2002 (103) were in just three metropolitan areas, Houston with 44, Beaumont with 34, and Dallas with 25 (NCHS 2005). Learn more.
Environmental Working Group: Asbestos Epidemic in America - Ten thousand Americans die each year -- a rate approaching 30 deaths per day -- from diseases caused by asbestos, according to a detailed analysis of government mortality records and epidemiological studies by the EWG Action Fund. Full Report.
NIOSH: Chart - Asbestosis, Age-adjusted death rates by state, U.S. residents age 15 and over, 1996–2005. Access chart.
Environmental Working Group: A Slow Death in Texas -Asbestos Mortality on the rise in the Lone Star State (2005). At least 259 Texans died in 2002 from just two forms of asbestos disease, according to the most recent data from the National Centers for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control, obtained by the Washington, DC based EWG Action Fund. Mortality is divided roughly evenly between the two diseases, with 132 reported deaths from asbestosis and 127 reported mesothelioma fatalities. More than one third of the deaths in 2002 (103) were in just three metropolitan areas, Houston with 44, Beaumont with 34, and Dallas with 25 (NCHS 2005). Learn more.
Environmental Working Group: Asbestos Epidemic in America - Ten thousand Americans die each year -- a rate approaching 30 deaths per day -- from diseases caused by asbestos, according to a detailed analysis of government mortality records and epidemiological studies by the EWG Action Fund. Full Report.