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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 he was filling a 'sagger' with greenware ceramic dishes, in which they'd subsequently be fired to a bisque state. A sagger is a ceramic container used to hold pre-fired delicate clay forms. The filled sagger was placed on an 'iron horse' conveyor system, which moved everything from materiel, product, and even workers. Note that this man was not wearing a protective filtered breathing mask, though he 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