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This 1958 historical photograph was provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and depicted a Lompoc, California industrial plant worker wearing a respirator, while he was filling bags with diatomaceous earth. Inhaled dust, or other airborne particulate materials containing silica that is deposited in the lungs, will cause the lung tissue to react by creating generalized nodular fibrotic changes, known as pneumoconiosis, which is also know an pneumosilicosis, or grinders’ disease. The image originally appeared in a U.S. Public Health Service Publication No. 601, in an article entitled,“Pneumoconiosis in Diatomite Mining and Processing”, 1958.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH
Creation Date: 1958
Photo Credit: Unknown
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