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• Mining Fact Sheets
  4/1/2022 - Data and statistics
  Mining Fact Sheets covering a variety of topics of general interest relating to mining operations, employees, fatalities, and nonfatal lost-time injuries.
• Why Do Haul Truck Fatal Accidents Keep Occurring?
  4/1/2022 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A review of U.S. haul-truck-related fatal accidents from 2005 to 2018 that focuses on the initiating event, event outcome, hazards present, and possible preventative and mitigative controls.
• Respirable Crystalline Silica Characteristics and Sources in U.S. Underground Coal Mines
  3/25/2022 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract with Virginia Tech University to research respirable crystalline silica characteristics in coal mine dust samples and in samples representative of major dust sources.
• Direct-on-filter Analysis for Respirable Crystalline Silica Using a Portable FTIR Instrument
  1/1/2022 - Information Circulars
  This report details how to implement field-based monitoring for respirable crystalline silica using portable Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).
• Quantifying Elemental and Organic Carbon in Diesel Particulate Matter by Mid-infrared Spectrometry
  9/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing a method for quantifying airborne organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) within aerosolized diesel particulate matter (DPM).
• Best Practices for Dust Control in Coal Mining. Second edition.
  8/16/2021 - Information Circulars
  Read about the latest best practices for dust control in coal mining.
• Data Detectives: How NIOSH Mining Corrected a Century-old Error
  4/9/2021 - Data and statistics, News and announcements
  A feature describing data from 1911 that was misreported as a mine disaster.
• Investigation of the Anisotropic Confinement-dependent Brittleness of a Utah Coal
  4/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study assessing the strength characteristics of coal under high confinement to gain insights for pillar stability and design.
• A Novel Sampling Cassette for Field-based Analysis of Respirable Crystalline Silica
  3/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study evaluating a novel cassette designed to facilitate field-based, direct-on-filter analysis of RCS using transmission FTIR spectroscopy.
• Health Conditions in Retired Manual Labor Miners and Oil and Gas Extraction Workers: National Health Interview Survey, 2007-2017
  2/1/2021 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study comparing chronic illnesses in retired miners and oil and gas workers with all other retirees.