Art Stone-Granite & Marble Inc., Marietta: OSHA silica citation
Workers at Art Stone-Granite & Marble Inc. in Marietta, Georgia were exposed to silica dust, and OSHA cited the company for it. On May 14, 2025, the Labor Department made the citation public.
What inspectors found at the whole workplace goes in the citation; your own health and work there decide whether you can claim.
- Penalty proposed for all hazards
- $120,000
- The citation's violations, covering all hazards
- 2 repeat and 13 serious
- Announced
- May 14, 2025
- Agency
- OSHA
- Where
- Marietta, Georgia
- Kind of work
- Manufacturer of stone products
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Inspection reason: A follow-up to the safety and health inspection of April 2024.
Silica dust: the findings
- No workplace protections were provided by the company for employees exposed to silica dust.
- Despite an earlier inspection flagging the issue, the company didn't run a respiratory protection program.
Additional hazards from the same citation
- Despite an earlier inspection flagging the issue, the company didn't run a hearing conservation program.
- On the job, workers lacked protection from noise hazards.
The employer's time to answer the citation: Paying $120,000 in penalties, fixing the hazards, and adding steps to stop a repeat of the problems is what the company would do once cited.
If your job was at Art Stone-Granite & Marble
In the US, most new silicosis cases today turn up in shops cutting quartz and other engineered stone. Cutting, grinding or polishing slabs at Art Stone-Granite & Marble in Marietta may leave two claims open to you: workers' comp from the employer's insurance, and a suit against the firms that made the stone.
Two ways to claim in Georgia
Workers' comp claims in Georgia
- to file for workers' comp, once you learn the job caused it
- 1 year
- the final day to file, counted from when the job's dust last reached you
- 7 years
The Georgia State Board of Workers' Compensation is where you file a workers' comp claim in Georgia (official site).
You get a year to file. The clock starts once you learned, or ought to have learned, that the illness disabled you and came from your job. Seven years after that job's dust last reached you, you can no longer file. (O.C.G.A. §34-9-281)
A lawsuit against the manufacturers
A suit aimed at whoever made the stone or the equipment counts as a different claim, with a deadline all its own. How silicosis lawsuits work
Can't tell which company made your stone or your equipment? Labels on slabs or tools, along with pay stubs and job photos, can help a lawyer figure it out.
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All silica citations in Georgia
The official source is U.S. Labor Department news release 25-839-ATL. Labor Department news releases are the source of these records, which are refreshed monthly.
More Georgia employers cited for silica
- Atlanta Kitchen LLC in Decatur
- Aludyne Columbus LLC in Columbus
- Brazilian Stone Design LLC in Powder Springs
- GT Stone Granite LLC in Cartersville
- Stone Atlanta Countertops Inc. in Cartersville