Nuisance framing made dust more injurious to machinery than to workers.

Evidence

The seriousness of silicosis was trivialized: “Too few [physicians] have realized the prognosis with the so-called benign pneumoconiosis due to inert dust deposits is no more unfavorable than is the mild anthracosis of every city resident… . Not infrequently we find nuisance dust exposures to be more injurious to the mechanical equipment than to workmen” (Sander, 1946). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1797

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