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12/27/2023 - Research projectsA project to develop and implement workplace solutions to reduce miners’ overexposure to hazardous airborne contaminants emitted from diesel-powered equipment.
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1/10/2023 - Research projectsA project to investigate the feasibility of using alternative measurement approaches to quantify both elemental carbon and organic carbon in filter samples of mine air.
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9/21/2020 - Research projectsA project to develop practical and economic engineering controls, guidelines, and translational solutions for improving the quality and quantity of airflow in large-opening stone mines.
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9/16/2020 - Research projectsA project to eliminate coal dust explosions in underground coal mines through the development of improved methodologies for identifying and mitigating explosible accumulations of coal dust.
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6/5/2017 - Research projectsA project to maintain a Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) designed to identify the incidence and progression of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis in all coal miners.
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3/31/2017 - Research projectsA project to investigate the feasibility of using alternative measurement approaches to quantify both elemental carbon and organic carbon in filter samples of mine air.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to develop and implement effective interventions to control diesel particulate matter, dust, and other respirable contaminants generated and liberated in the metal/nonmetal mining industry.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA 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.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to eliminate coal dust explosions in underground coal mines.
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10/22/2016 - Research projectsA project to develop control technologies that will reduce the most common sources of respirable dust on the longwall face, which will in turn protect the health of mine workers on the longwall face.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program