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NIOSH's Office of Mine Safety and Health Research is working in several areas to assist the coal industry's efforts to limit miner exposure to dust. Inhalation of respirable-sized coal dust can lead to the …
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prevention of occupational respiratory disease among coal miners remains essentially unaffected by the newer findings that have emerged since publica - tion of the CCD. In …
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Coal mine dust causes a range of lung diseases, collectively called coal mine dust lung diseases. ... 2017 revealed that the percentage of silica-containing respirable dust was significantly higher in Central Appalachian underground mines compared with those in the rest of the U.S. suggesting the greatest potential for …
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Coal mine dust remains a relevant occupational hazard and miners remain at risk for CMDLD, and prevention is critical. Objective: To provide an update on respiratory diseases caused by coal mine dust. Methods: This article presents the results of a literature review initially performed for an International Conference on Occupational and …
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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), as part of the spectrum of coal mine dust lung disease (CMDLD), is a preventable but incurable lung disease that can be complicated by respiratory failure …
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The Introduction of Roof Bolting to U.S. Underground Coal Mines (1948-1960): A Cautionary Tale Optimizing Secondary Roof Support with the NIOSH Support Technology Optimization Program (STOP) …
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Figure 1 shows an example of a buildup and explosion of toxic gases, such as methane (CH 4), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2), and hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S) in an underground mine. The inhalation of an overlooked black damp in mines, which is a mixture of dust, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen [], gradually overcomes and destroys the …
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC twenty four seven. Saving Lives, Protecting People ... Ventilation has long been the primary means of controlling methane emissions in underground coal mines. However, as mining has progressed into gassier areas of U.S. coal basins, supplemental means of methane …
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Because coalbed discontinuities often pose serious economic and safety problems in underground coal mines, criteria were documented for the recognition and prediction of discontinuities in advance of mining. Pennsylvanian strata in Indiana and Armstrong Counties, PA, were deposited as part of fluvio-deltaic complexes with …
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Despite being crucial for meeting the world's energy demands, coal mining operations present considerable health risks, especially when it comes to exposure to coal dust. Longwall coal mining, an advanced technique, has considerably enhanced production but made dust control more difficult. Due to its explosive nature, coal dust …
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Conclusions Although higher than average respirable dust and quartz levels were observed at UBB, over 200 US underground coal mines had higher dust concentrations than UBB and over 100 exceeded the PEL more frequently. Together with lung histopathological findings among UBB fatalities, these data suggest exposures leading to CWP in the …
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Respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) is a mixture of more than 50 elements and their oxides. It is estimated that 40%–95% of respirable dust in the underground …
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Although higher than average respirable dust and quartz levels were observed at UBB, over 200 US underground coal mines had higher dust concentrations than UBB and over 100 exceeded the PEL more frequently. Together with lung histopathological findings among UBB fatalities, these data suggest exposu …
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From 1986 to 2010, there were 10 multiple fatality explosions in underground coal mines in the U.S. These explosions increased the fatality rate from 44.0 to 81.3 in 2006 and from 23.5 to 80.4 in 2010 (per 100,000 employee hours worked, underground coal).
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associated with lung diseases common to the coal mining industry, including coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), also known as "black lung disease." In the 1960s, this …
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Unfortunately, this has overshadowed the burden of other diseases that occur in coal miners. ... 2017 revealed that the percentage of silica-containing …
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This change in disease profile for miners diagnosed with pneumoconiosis suggests that U.S. coal miners experience higher crystalline silica exposure than before. The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study encompassed more than 12,000 miners. Results showed a significant increased risk of dying …
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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), as part of the spectrum of coal mine dust lung disease (CMDLD), is a preventable but incurable lung disease that can be complicated by respiratory failure and ...
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1. Introduction. Coal mining is a hazardous occupation, with high risks for both accidents [] and occupational diseases, especially respiratory disease [2,3], compared to other types of work.Occupational disease risks are not restricted to underground miners but extend to surface mining workers as well [4,5].Surface mining workers are exposed …
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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), as part of the spectrum of coal mine dust lung disease (CMDLD), is a preventable but incurable lung disease that can be complicated by respiratory failure and death. ... At the time, traditional manual work was the predominant mining technique, yet the respirable dust concentration in one underground coal ...
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A 1968 underground explosion that killed 78 coal miners in Farmington, West ia, was a flashpoint for reform after years of fatalities and a growing awareness of black lung disease. The Federal Coal Mine …
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Castranova V (2000) From coal mine dust to quartz: mechanisms of pulmonary pathogenicity. Inhal Tox 12: 7-14. Haldin CN, Reed WR, Colinet MS, Rider JP, Petsonk EL, et al. (2015) Debilitating Lung Disease Among Coal Miners's With no Underground Mining Tenure. J Occup Environ Med 57: 62-67.
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The potential of coal mine dust to cause disabling pneumoconiosis has long been recognised, but research now suggests that pneumoconiosis is not the only respiratory hazard of coal mining. Over the last 30 years evidence has accumulated that miners also experience an excess of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and this has …
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Introduction. The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (Coal Act) begins with the declaration: "the first priority and concern of all in the coal mining industry must be …
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recognized prevalence of disease in underground coal miners with more than 25 years of work tenure had decreased to about 5 percent. However, since around 2000 there ... conducted in an experimental underground coal mine. Federal, academic, and coal mine industry researchers should seek opportunities for conducting collaborative
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An underground coal miner with a diagnosis of pneumoconiosis may have a legal right to frequent exposure monitoring and transfer to a reduced dust job if one is …
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Dust exposures in mining. Tim Watkins: 9:15-10:30 a.m. Collecting, measuring, and analyzing RCS samples: Development of a direct sensing sampler for submicron mining particles including coal, silica and nano-sized diesel particulates. Candace Tsai: Towards hybrid microfluidic solutions for real-time silica detection in …
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In terms of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works (ODMW) Act, the pathology division of South Africa's National Institute for Occupational Health provides an autopsy service for deceased miners and ex-miners for the diagnosis of compensable disease, regardless of the clinical cause of death or their disease status, provided the …
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It also applies to 11,000 other mines, collectively known as metal/nonmetal mines, which employ 144,000 more miners than coal mines. They, for the first time, will be required to sample for silica ...
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The subject began underground coal mining at age 25 years in 1980. Surveillance radiograph showed category 1/1 pneumoconiosis at age 33 years (1988) and massive fibrosis at age 46 years (2001). ... Thus, reliance on protective masks to prevent chronic lung disease from coal mining is neither practical nor legal.
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