Massachusetts Cannabis Worker Died on Job From Asthma, the First Reported Case in US

Published on November 17, 2023

A Massachusetts woman who developed and later died from asthma while working at a marijuana processing facility was the first known work-related asthma death in the nation’s cannabis workforce, a new report from federal health and labor officials said. In the report, published Friday in a weekly journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Labor identified cannabis dust as the allergen that caused the fatal asthma attack. The victim, described as a 27-year-old woman, started working at an indoor cannabis cultivation and processing facility in May 2021. Two months later, according to the report, she experienced an onset of nausea, loss of taste and smell, earache, and cough. Her employer asked her to test if she had COVID-19, and the test results were negative....

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