The Mine Safety and Health Administration has announced that 99 percent of the coal mine dust samples collected from April 1, 2016, through June 30, 2016, were in compliance with its coal mine dust ...

Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a human carcinogen. [1] Occupational exposure to RCS results in adverse health effects ...

This report compares the monitoring technologies and sampling protocols currently used or required by the United States, and in similarly industrialized countries for the control of respirable coal ...

Part of the agency's "End Black Lung -- Act Now" campaign, the rule being published Oct. 19 will halve the concentration limit for respirable coal dust in underground mines to 1.0 mg/m3 over the next ...

Arlington, VA – One year after a respirable coal dust rule went into effect, sampling results are showing that mines are complying with reforms and better protecting coal miners from black lung ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration reports that a recent sampling of respirable coal dust shows that phase II of the federal rule is having a "significantly positive" impact. Approximately 99 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the United States, and the ...

According to Casella, a company that supplies dust, noise, and vibration monitoring equipment, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that 1.7 workers in the United States are exposed to respirable ...

ABINGDON, Va. — A Grundy coal company owner must serve three months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit dust-sampling fraud. Daniel Tucker, 57, the owner of D&H Mining ...