ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2020
Respirable coal mine dust at surface mines, United States, 1982-2017.
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- Respirable Dust Exposure in Western Australian Mining: Trends, Variability, and Implications for Occupational Health.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
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- Women in Coal Mining-Radiographic Findings of Women Participants in the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program 1970-2022.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2024Article
- Historical shift in pathological type of progressive massive fibrosis among coal miners in the USA.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2023Article
- Exposure to dust and respiratory health among Australian miners.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2023Article
- Investigation of respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) and respirable crystalline silica (RCS) in the U.S. underground and surface coal mines.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Assessment of pneumoconiosis in surface coal miners after implementation of a national radiographic surveillance program, United States, 2014-2019.American journal of industrial medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundExposure to respirable coal mine dust can cause pneumoconiosis, an irreversible lung disease that can be debilitating. The mass concentration and quartz mass percent of respirable coal mine dust samples (annually, by occupation, by geographic region) from surface coal mines and surface facilities at U.S. underground mines during 1982-2017 were summarized.
methodsMine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) collected and analyzed data for respirable dust and a subset of the samples were analyzed for quartz content. We calculated the respirable dust and quartz concentration geometric mean, arithmetic mean, and percent of samples exceeding the respirable dust permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 2.0 mg/m3, and the average percent of quartz content in samples.
resultsThe geometric mean for 288 705 respirable dust samples was 0.17 mg/m
conclusionHigher concentrations of respirable dust or quartz in specific coal mining occupations, notably drilling occupations, and in certain U.S. regions, underscores the need for continued surveillance to identify workers at higher risk for pneumoconiosis.
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