Free chest X-rays for working underground coal miners. Questions and answers.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This pamphlet provides information on free chest x-rays available to working underground coal miners under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. The Act provided that underground coal miners were eligible to participate in a chest x-ray program for the diagnosis of coal worker's pneumoconiosis. Topics discussed in this pamphlet included coal workers' pneumoconiosis, mine operator payment for x-ray examinations of workers, arrangements for examinations, interpretation of the x-rays by physicians, notification of the results, additional medical information from the x-ray examination, black lung benefits, and general benefits of participation in the examination program.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Aircraft Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Dust-inhalation Health-care-personnel Lung-disorders Mining-industry Pulmonary-system-disorders
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00173090
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1983 Jan; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179999/cdc_179999_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.23 MB ]