Research progress on thesaurosis of antimony

As the antimony and its compounds are widely used in the industry,workers' health problems caused by the antimony dust and smoke have gradually aroused people's attention. The smelt and productive process of antimony would cause a large amount of dust which could be absorbed directly to the deeper issue of the lung and lead to the occupational damage of lung. This paper summarizes the domestic and overseas researches on the toxicity of the antimony metal.