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This historical image, which was provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (
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This historical image, which was provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), depicted a West Virginia ceramics industry worker as she was trimming ceramic 'greenware' in a factory setting, Greenware constitutes a clay form, which had not yet been fired, which would convert the form to a hardened bisque. Note that this woman was not wearing a protective filtered breathing mask, though she was standing in an environment notoriously known to be contaminated with airborne particulates, which would lead to the chronic pulmonary disease known as pneumoconiosis, or silicosis, or more commonly known as 'grinders' disease', characterized by the formation of nodular fibrotic changes in the lungs. The image was published in the 'Public Health Bulletin', No. 244, 1939.
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CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH
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November 17, 2012