A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a 34-year-old stonecutter afflicted with an incurable disease. In a decision ...

Caesarstone, which has a facility in Sun Valley, is one of the companies named in an L.A. County lawsuit. (Zoe Cranfill / Los Angeles Times) From morning to evening, six days a week, Gustavo Reyes ...

A worker told he has just weeks to live after developing a lung disease brought on by years of cutting kitchen worktops is taking legal action against his former employers. Dad-of-three Marek Marzec, ...

When Wendy Solano first heard the word “silicosis,” her husband Jose Raul Garcia Leon was already suffering from the incurable disease that would kill him. After immigrating from Mexico, the father of ...

I renovated my kitchen two years ago, and now I can’t help but wonder: Is someone sick or dying because of my design choices? Among the decisions I had to make was which material would replace the ...

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of the Pacoima neighborhood in Los Angeles, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock.

A man-made stone popular in kitchen refurbishments but linked to the deaths of young tradesmen from an incurable lung disease will now be subject to a Government crackdown, The i Paper can reveal. It ...

Marek Marzec, a 48-year-old father of three, tragically passed away after developing silicosis, a terminal lung disease ...

Artificial stone used to make kitchen and bathroom countertops has been linked to cases of death and irreversible lung injury in workers who cut, grind and polish this increasingly popular material.

From morning to evening, six days a week, Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez spent his days cutting engineered stone, a man-made product that has become a popular choice for kitchen and bathroom countertops. The ...