dust exposure in small us coal mines

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  • Respirable Coal Mine Dust: Continuous Personal Dust

    [Federal Register: October 14, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 197)] [Proposed Rules] [Page 52708-52712] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais ...

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  • Best Practices For Dust Control In Coal Mining

    IC 9517 INFORMATION CIRCULAR/2010 Best Practices for Dust Control in Coal Mining Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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  • Coal Mine Dust Sampling Devices - United States

    [Federal Register: April 6, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 65)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 17511-17529] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais …

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  • Coal mining – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity.

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  • Coal – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Coal (from the Old English term col, which has meant "mineral of fossilized carbon" since the 13th century) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock …

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  • Deadly black lung surges back in coal country – Open …

    PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Ray Marcum bears the marks of a bygone era of coal mining. At 83, his voice is raspy, his eastern Kentucky accent thick and his forearms leathery.

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  • Occupational Safety and Health Guideline for Coal Dust

    DISCLAIMER: These guidelines were developed under contract using generally accepted secondary sources. The protocol used by the contractor for surveying these data …

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  • Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) – Home Page

    Administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and enforces compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to …

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  • Black Lung: Dust hasn’t settled on deadly disease

    Coal dust has blackened the lungs of miners for hundreds of years, and efforts to end black-lung disease stretch back decades. But in Eastern Kentucky, the disease …

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  • Coal mining – Conservapedia

    Coal mining is the process of digging coal out of the ground and bringing it to market,. Coal has been used for centuries for small-scale furnaces.

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  • Coal mining – encyclopedia article – Citizendium

    Coal mining is a term that encompasses the various methods used to extract the carbon-containing rock called coal from the ground. Coal tends to exist in seams, …

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  • Mines and Communities: Coal Mining and arsenic …

    Empowering activists and communities opposed to mining through information on global mining trends, specific projects and mining industry attempts to subvert …

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  • Evaluation of Ground Conditions in Canadian …

    Evaluation of Ground Conditions in Canadian Underground Coal Mines. by Dr. C. Mark (NIOSH) for Underground Coal Mining Safety Research Collaboration

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  • LNP MP Vaughan Johnson warned Queensland …

    ONE of the LNP’s own MPs warned Queensland Parliament last year that coal dust could present a bigger health problem than asbestos if mining activities encroached on …

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  • UNDERGROUND COAL MINING – International Labour …

    UNDERGROUND COAL MINING . Simon Walker . Underground coal production first began with access tunnels, or adits, being mined into seams from their surface outcrops.

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  • Occupational Health and Safety in Small Scale Mining: Focus on …

    103 Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 13 #3 July 2012 Occupational Health and Safety in Small Scale Mining: Focus on Women Workers in the Philippines

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  • Nova Scotia Archives – Men in the Mines – Disasters in …

    Men in the Mines A History of Mining Activity in Nova Scotia, 1720-1992

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  • Silica, Crytalline – Dust Control Handbook, Chapter 1: …

    What Is Dust? Dust consists of tiny solid particles carried by air currents. These articles are formed by a disintegration or fracture process, such as grinding …

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  • EPA’s Coal Regulations: Driving Out Coal Hurts …

    Congress should reform federal coal policies and regulations to enable the market—not federal politicians and bureaucrats—to determine the role of coal in U.S

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  • Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste: …

    By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation

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