Safety and health at work.
Publisher:
Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute
Frequency: Quarterly
Country: Korea (South)
Language: English
Author(s):
Sanŏp Anjŏn Pogŏn Yŏn'guwŏn (Korea)
Start Year:2010 -
ISSN:
2093-7911 (Print)
2093-7997 (Electronic)
2093-7911 (Linking)
2093-7997 (Electronic)
2093-7911 (Linking)
Impact Factor
3.5
2022
| NLM ID: | 101542940 |
| (OCoLC): | 688982388 |
| LCCN: | 2010243887 |
| Classification: | W1 SH182L |
A case report of lung cancer in a horse trainer caused by exposure to respirable crystalline silica: an exposure assessment. Here, we present a case of lung cancer in a 48-year-old male horse trainer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such case report to include an exposure assessment of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) as a quartz. The trainer had no family history of lung cancer. Although he had a 15 pack/year cigarette-smoking history, he had stopped smoking 12 years prior to his diagnosis. For the past 23 years, he had performed longeing, and trained 7-12 horses per day on longeing arena surfaces covered by recycled sands, the same surfaces used in race tracks. We investigated his workplace RCS ...