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NIOSH’s
WORLD Surveillance Report, provides some data through 1999 on such
concerns for construction workers as asbestosis, asthma, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, lung cancer, mesothelioma, silicosis, and associated
occupational dust exposures, plus smoking, by occupation.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2003-111/2003-111.html
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