The culprit is respirable crystalline silica dust (RCS), both a dust hazard and a carcinogen released during the manufacture and cutting of engineered stone. Workers who cut, shape and finish ...

Marek Marzec is a Polish stonemason who came to this country in search of work 13 years ago. He found it – in the cutting rooms of kitchen worktop suppliers. Now he’s lying in a hospital bed and dying ...

Kitchens are the hardest working room in the home and often need replacing and repairing. To save money on installing a worktop, it is possible to undertake the task yourself. However, it is important ...

Marek was too ill to undergo a potentially lifesaving lung transplant A DAD who developed a lung disease after years of cutting kitchen worktops in “appalling conditions” has died, his family have ...

Granite worktops come in a range of colours including black, cream and pink. It's a non-renewable natural stone, so it requires a significant amount of energy and generates a lot of pollutants during ...