"Tonoko" Pneumoconiosis in Household Industries

Silicosis in workers dealing with tonoko: case reports and analyses of tonoko.

We found three cases of pneumoconiosis among those workers who had been dealing with tonoko (a mineral powder) for more than ten years at a shop making wooden furniture in Sendai, Japan. In the factory the workers were exposed to tonoko dust and had been inhaling it for a long time. Until now, this disease has not been found in employees of furniture factories; and, furthermore, tonoko has not ...

Pneumoconiosis Trends in the US Construction Industry: A comparison between the coal mining and construction industries

This paper presents a comparison between the construction and the coal mining industries in the USA relating to the different types of pneumoconiosis (i.e. silicosis, asbestosis, Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), and byssinosis) in order to determine the relationships between each type of pneumoconiosis and the occupations in both industries that are mostly affected by the disease. In this st...

Occupational health in small scale and household industries in Nepal: a situation analysis.

INTRODUCTION Making working conditions safe and healthy is the interest of workers, employers and the Government.Although it seems simple and obvious, this idea has not yet gained meaningful recognition in Nepal. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted in ten small scale industries of Kathmandu valley. Altogether 545 questionnaires on socioeconomic and occupational history were filled u...

Pneumoconiosis in boiler scalers.

Every six months or so the majority of steamdriven ships spend a few days in docks having their boilers scaled and cleaned. In the larger docks there are men who are employed full time in this occupation, but elsewhere and in industry generally the cleaning is more often done as an occasional job. The total number of men engaged in the work full time is not large, but the occupation is a very d...

Graphite pneumoconiosis.