Occupational diseases

“Asbestos is not a curse of the past: it’s still a killer today, every day. A silent, painful killer of some 1300 people per annum in Germany. More people die from the tiny carcinogenic mineral fibres than through accidents at work. The insidious thing about it is that death occurs decades later.”

www.Berufserkrankungen-Siegerland.de. (Regional self-help group for work-related injuries), retrieved April 26, 2022