Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of the Pacoima neighborhood in Los Angeles, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock.

There are plenty of steps in a DIY countertop install that can leave you feeling stressed, with the cutting phase easily being one of the most intimidating. A bad cut or even the most minor blemish ...

Dennys Rene Rivas Williams had to undergo a double lung transplant and now takes numerous pills each day. He is among dozens of L.A. County countertop cutters diagnosed with incurable silicosis. (Al ...

Over the past decade, engineered stone countertops made from crushed quartz have taken over the U.S. market. They come in a range of colors and patterns, and manufacturers talk up their advantages.

A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a 34-year-old stonecutter afflicted with an incurable disease. In a decision ...

Cutting-edge technology and stone production techniques are enabling manufacturers to thinly slice semiprecious stone and create mineral-imbedded quartz for use in luminous countertops with a ...

Doctors had diagnosed the 36-year-old with silicosis: an incurable disease caused by inhaling tiny bits of lung-scarring silica. It was an affliction that had debilitated dozens of workers in Los ...