Sentences with phrase «workers die from cancers»

Each year in the US alone, 10,000 workers die from cancers related to pesticide use, while in developing countries, that figure more than doubles.

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But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

The largest study to date on poultry workers found a significantly increased risk of dying from penile cancer, thought to be due to exposure to oncogenic (cancer - causing) chicken viruses, which raise consumer concerns as well.

Those crimes committed by Massey Energy led not only to the deaths of their own workers, but to the deaths of countless local residents, such as Joshua Mc Cormick, who died of kidney cancer at age 22 because he was unlucky enough to live downstream from a coal mine.