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by pixl97 924 days ago
This article isn't really talking about the tiny amounts of on site cuts (which are typically done outside on site anyway).

Other articles have shown the shops where this product is cut in mass without any PPE. The shops are a hazard to anyone that gets close as there appears to be about zero dust control.

But even this is a tempest in a teacup compared to the amount of concrete cutting occurring without PPE. I don't see concrete being replaced on job sites, so I do wonder what the motivation behind many of these articles are? It's like some industry group that sells a competing product wants more exposure to their product without actually making the workplace safer for the people working with it.

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The motivation is the large number of workers contracting silicosis