Mining Facts - 2001

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A total of 14,623 mining operations reported statistics to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Mine operators reported 233,112 employees or (238,921 full-time equivalent workers (FTE) workers.) In 2001, there were 72 fatalities, compared to eighty-four (84) in 2000. There were 9,949 nonfatal lost-time injuries reported to MSHA in 2001. These ocurred at a rate of 3.5 injuries per 100,000 FTE workers and resulted in a total of 508,888 days lost from work. In 2001, 798 occupational illensses were reported to MSHA. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Mortality Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Miners; Mine-workers; Mining-industry; Mortality-data; Employees; Underground-miners; Underground-mining; Coal-miners; Coal-mining; Injuries; Occupational-diseases; Traumatic-injuries; Lost-work-days; Statistical-analysis
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2003-105, 2003 Feb; :1
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory ; SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022471
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/160760/cdc_160760_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 181.43 KB ]