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Coal Miners and Lung Cancer: Can Mortality Studies …

The presence of DEPs in the coal mining environment presents a significant confounder in evaluating the significance of lung cancer results in coal worker mortality …

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Black Lung Is Still Killing America's Coal Miners | The Nation

In 2018, NPR ran a series investigating the rise in black lung cases in younger workers, raising alarm bells that were largely unheard outside of the mining community. Almost five years later ...

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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis: an Australian perspective

"Pneumoconiosis" refers to a group of fibrotic lung diseases caused by the retention of dust in the lung. Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), also known as "black lung", is an irreversible interstitial lung disease resulting from chronic inhalation of coal dust.1 CWP has a long history, with the first case being reported in 1831.2 Workers …

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'It's really tragic': why are coalminers still dying from …

Silicosis is an untreatable lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust that progressively scars the lungs. About 100 workers die ... He said anytime workers are drilling, mining or ...

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Coal worker's pneumoconiosis: CT assessment in exposed workers …

To study the signs of coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP) at computed tomography (CT), the authors obtained thoracic CT scans in 170 coal-dust-exposed workers who were concomitantly evaluated with conventional posteroanterior and lateral radiography. The profusion and extent of disease was assessed by means of CT in two …

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Cases of black lung disease increases in Queensland workers

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis accounts for 40 of the total 133. Twenty new cases of MDLD have been reported to the Queensland Government since July last year on top of 36 new cases reported during ...

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Potential Human Health Effects of Uranium Mining, Processing, …

Many of the findings related to occupational exposures and adverse health outcomes presented in this chapter are based on studies of uranium and hard-rock miners (e.g., worker-based radon studies) for periods of disease risk when the magnitude of the exposures was much greater than the exposures reported at most mines and processing …

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Current Review of Pneumoconiosis Among US Coal Miners

The increased scientific and media attention has precipitated extensive reforms to programs designed to prevent pneumoconiosis in coal miners and mitigate its negative health effects, including a 40% increase in funding for federally supported black lung clinics. Coal mining will remain an important industry in the USA for the foreseeable future.

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Focusing on Coal Workers' Lung Diseases: A Comparative Analysis …

In the USA, the Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation set up benefit rates (Part B and Part C) for lung diseases paralleling the WorkCover in the states, where the two parts of compensation ranged from $660.10 to $1320 monthly based on the number of dependent persons . The compensation of Part C came from the Black Lung Disability …

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Respiratory Diseases Caused by Coal Mine Dust

Coal mine dust causes a spectrum of lung diseases collectively termed coal mine dust lung disease (CMDLD). These include Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis, silicosis, mixed …

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Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining …

Black miners only; 62% of men employed for <5 years 78% younger than 40 * Steen et al. 1997 : Cross-sectional: 1994: Living black ex-miners: Botswana: 304: 15.5: Chest X- rays: ... and the identification of asbestos fibres in the lungs of diamond mine workers and diamond mine tailings. The diagnosis of silicosis and fibrotic nodules in the ...

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The two main types of pneumoconioses that affect miners are coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and silicosis. CWP, commonly called black lung, affects workers in coal mining. Silicosis can affect …

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Black lung disease is still killing miners. The coal industry won't

The federal Mine Safety Health administration reports that between 1968 and 2014, in which an estimated 76,000 miners died from black lung disease, federal compensation alone cost $45bn.

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The Impact of Black Lung and a Methodology for …

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly known as black lung, is caused by the inhalation of respirable coal mine dust and is a disabling and potentially …

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Black Lung Is Still Killing America's Coal Miners | The …

Kim Kelly. Share. This occupational health image shows the lungs of a coal worker with Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly known as "black lung …

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Coal Workers' Lung Diseases and Silicosis | Thoracic Key

Recent advances in the understanding of respiratory health issues in coal miners have focused on the spectrum of disease caused by inhalation of coal mine dust, termed coal mine dust lung disease (CMDLD). 1. CMDLD includes the classic occupational interstitial lung diseases, such as coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP), silicosis, and …

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Lung Function and Respiratory Health of Populations Living …

Previous studies that measured the lung function of people exposed to dust were only conducted among quarry or mining workers [9,11,19,20,30]. Only one study, conducted in Nigeria, assessed lung function among a mixed group of workers and residents who live near quarry sites compared to a control group [ 22 ].

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Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis in …

1. Introduction. Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease and a group of interstitial lung diseases (ILD) caused by chronic inhalation of dust particles, often in mines and from agriculture, that can damage both lungs and is not reversible [1,2,3].There are three important occupational lung diseases, coal worker …

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Not your grandfather's black lung: Federal rule seeks to save coal

Workers may get respite from breathing the toxic dust that remains omnipresent in U.S. mining operations, despite decades of evidence of its deadly consequences. The federal Mine Safety and Health ...

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Why Black Lung Disease Is Deadlier Than Ever Before

More than 76,000 miners have died of black lung since 1968, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor. These include several of McCool's friends from the mines, who died in their ...

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(PDF) Literature Review: Coal Dust Exposure and

inhaled by mining workers and harmful. ... the body will accumulate and settle in the workers' lungs . organs, depending on its size ... of respondents aged 40 - 55 had severe obstructive .

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New study decodes patterns of pneumoconiosis among coal miners

Feedback to editors. At work, coal miners are constantly exposed to silica or coal dust, which tends to settle in their lungs. This irritates the lungs, causing inflammation, fibrosis, and ...

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Rule to limit silica aimed at preventing black lung disease : NPR

Retired West Virginia coal miner Terry Lilly, who has black lung, speaks during a public hearing hosted by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration about its draft rule to limit worker ...

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Coal miners plead with feds for stronger enforcement during …

Coal Miner Andy Martin, who has black lung, speaks during a public hearing hosted by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration about its draft rule to limit worker exposure to silica dust ...

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Lung disease and coal mining: what pulmonologists …

A detailed understanding of coal mining methods and processes allows clinicians to better evaluate and confirm chronic lung diseases caused by inhalational hazards in the mine …

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A Scourge Returns: Black Lung in Appalachia

The History of Black Lung. Black lung is not a new disease. Ever since humans first started mining coal nearly 5,000 years ago in Bronze Age China, 9 those who worked in the mines breathed in the black dust that, over time, destroyed their lungs. Writing in 1846, Scottish physician Archibald Makellar sketched out the course of the …

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Rule to limit silica aimed at preventing black lung disease …

The proposed new rule would directly regulate silica in the air for the first time. Petsonk, who represents miners in black lung and other cases, told regulators he …

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Coal miners plead with feds for stronger enforcement during …

Retired West Virginia coal miner Terry Lilly, who has black lung, speaks during a public hearing hosted by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration about its draft rule to limit worker exposure to silica dust at the agency's office in Beaver, W.Va. on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

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The Militant Miners Who Exposed the Horrors of Black Lung

Eventually, over 40,000 workers participated in the strike, effectively bringing the state's mining sector to a halt until the bill was passed in March of that year. Over the next year, the black lung movement would influence the passage of similar legislation at the federal level, including the 1970 law that created the Occupational Safety ...

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Coal Miners and Lung Cancer: Can Mortality Studies Offer a …

Using a weight of evidence approach-considered the preferred method when evaluating disparate studies to assess risk- studies of coal-mine workers do not indicate a consistent increase in lung cancer risk. Slight elevations in SMR cannot lead to a reliable conclusion about an increased risk due to limitations in exposure assessment and control ...

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