Mortality among coal miners covered by the UMWA health and retirement funds.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This report is a summary of the analyses of cause specific mortality within the coal mining industry. The data provide information regarding mortality in the United States coal miner as compared to the total United States male population. The overall mortality of coal miners in not excessively high. Major elevated risks are nonmalignant respiratory diseases, accidents, and stomach cancer. Nonmalignant respiratory diseases with high ratios include emphysema, asthma, and tuberculosis. An exact ratio could not be computed for pneumoconiosis, but even a conservative estimate would be very high. No significantly high excess is noted for any subcategory of cardiovascular disease. Diabetes appears in a large proportion of times as a contributory cause for death in coal miner than for the other populations. In most cases, it is impossible to determine whether differences in mortality patterns are due to differences in the coal mining populations or just a reflection of different mortality patterns for the total population. One exception is pneumoconiosis, as it is primarily an occupational disease. (Contract No. 099-73-0080)
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Dust Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mercury Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety
• Keywords:
  Cancer Cardiovascular-system-disorders Contract-099-73-0080 Epidemiology Etiology Gastrointestinal-system-disorders Hazards Health-statistics Mining-industry Mortality-data NIOSH-Contract Respiratory-system-disorders Statistics

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Final Contract Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-142
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00068880
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1975 Dec; :1-142
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• NORA Priority Area:
  Respiratory-system-disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:093990c07b005b9b749a9daf53b0bc24859eb15892b2df290dec05c59e840c7b7196fd982e304608ab18d89369f813de8d2212b16580329d17dd53ab740ad284
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178782/cdc_178782_DS1.pdf
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