Stone dust lung was a reality for the working men in the mining industry. Kopparberg which was a small mining village in the heart of Bergslagen, Sweden was a community that was mining minerals from the early 1600’s. With the primitive technology and safety regulations that were available for the workers, health risks were a constant factor with often deadly outcome. Compared with a town outside of Bergslagen Kopparberg showed itself to be placed at a higher risk of dying from lung-related diseases and deadly accidents tied to the workplace. Even if the stone dust lung was not a clinical illness before the possibility of x-ray the lungs the knowledge of the disease goes back to ancient times when Hippocrates described it in his texts.