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11/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper presents test results from a selection of four sound restoration hearing protection devices, with the objective of determining whether they provide improved speech intelligibility to workers near certain types of mining equipment.
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2/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThe performance of the current regulatory approach was found to be lacking due to the use of a variable property - quartz content in airborne dust - to establish a standard for subsequent exposures.
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11/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articlesNoncontact electric arc burns are the most common cause of electrical injury in mining according to data for 1990 through 2001. Results from a NIOSH study of arc flash hazards in mining and recommendations to reduce these injuries are presented.
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10/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articlesParticulate exposure from air pollution increases the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality. Although coal miners are highly exposed to coal dust particulate, studies of IHD mortality risk among coal miners have had inconsistent results.
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12/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper discusses ergonomic interventions that were successfully implemented at the Unimin Gleason, Tennessee operation using a participatory approach to reducing the risk of injury.
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7/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper updates an earlier report by the authors that studied electrical injuries from 1992 to 1998. The previous information is expanded and supplemented with fatal and nonfatal injury rates and trends through 2002.
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11/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis NIOSH study was conducted to focus future research on the most significant electrical problems in the mining industry. Data from 1,926 mine electrical accidents (including 75 fatalities) that occurred between 1990 and 1999 were studied.
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7/13/2022 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis paper provides details on hand and finger injuries in the U.S. mining industry.
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12/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study comparing dry dust collection with a wet dust collection at one coal mine location.
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12/1/2020 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article discussing the impact of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, commonly known as black lung, and a general methodology for controlling respirable dust in underground coal mines.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program