Results 21 - 30 of 39

• CPDM Helps Coal Miners Avoid Hazardous Dust
  12/30/2016 - Promotional materials
  Find out how the continuous personal dust monitor (CPDM) is being used to reduce exposure to black lung-causing coal dust.
• Differential Activation of RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Size-Segregated Crystalline Silica
  12/1/2016
  This article by NIOSH examines the particle characteristics of crystalline silica that enable the process leading to silicosis.
• Respirable Dust Control for Surface Mines
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to reduce respirable silica dust exposure in surface mines through improved understanding of dust generation and transport, improvement of current control technologies, and development of new control technologies.
• Enhanced Utilization of Personal Dust Monitor Feedback
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to test an intervention to help miners use personal dust monitor feedback more effectively to reduce their exposure to respirable coal mine dust.
• Silica Adds to Respirable Dust Concerns: What If You Could Know the Silica Dust Levels in a Coal Mine After Every Shift?
  1/1/2016 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  This trade publication by NIOSH discusses how respirable silica dust complicates the already complex issue of keeping dust levels low in underground coal mines, and how knowing silica dust levels quickly would help mines keep workers safer.
• Debilitating Lung Disease Among Surface Coal Miners with No Underground Mining Tenure
  1/1/2015 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A report characterizing exposure histories and respiratory disease among surface coal miners identified with progressive massive fibrosis from a 2010 to 2011 pneumoconiosis survey.
• Analysis of the Silica Percent in Airborne Respirable Mine Dust Samples from U.S. Operations
  2/1/2014 - Book chapters, Peer reviewed journal articles
  A journal article presenting an analysis of the % of silica in dust samples for the U.S. mining industry collected from 1997 to 2011.
• Deposition Uniformity of Coal Dust on Filters and its Effect on the Accuracy of FTIR Analyses for Silica
  7/1/2013 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study investigating a FTIR method for end-of-shift silica measurement on filter samples that assesses the influence of radial deposition uniformity on the accuracy of the method.
• Trend in Black Lung Cases Concerns NIOSH Researchers
  9/28/2012 - News articles
  Implementation of dust control technology and improved dust monitoring are effective ways for mine operators to reduce exposures to respirable coal dust. OMSHR is working to assist the industry’s efforts to limit miner exposure to dust.
• Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Prevalence Disparity Between Australia and the United States
  7/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The mining industry and labor stakeholders together requested that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) examine this issue, with the ultimate aim of reducing the rate of pneumoconiosis among U.S. coal miners.