Citation

Olano AS, Rodríguez ES, Pérez EB, Sánchez CM, Acosta MO. Cuad. Medi. Forense 2016; 22(1-2): 6-11.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Asociación Andaluza de Médicos Forenses, Publisher Palacio de Justitia)

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Abstract

Silicosis is still a current health problem by the renewed increase in demand for use in the home countertops quartz agglomerates in Spain. These countertops contain quartz (crystalline silica), causing said inorganic powder from place to deposit in the lung interstitium of workers not performing the appropriate protection measures in the workplace. It is a work of the companies in charge of the prevention of labor risks the information of the future problematics in the health of those that they do not choose to use the means of prevention as well as direct responsibility of the managers of the above mentioned companies of facilitating the material and the means adapted to carry out them. We report the case of a man whose autopsy revealed the incidental finding of pneumoconiosis silica, confirming later in the interview with the family who held his job at a company producing artificial marble and an occupational disease. © 2017, Asociacion Andaluza de Medicos Forenses. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

Pulmonary disease; Quartz agglomerates; Silicosis