Respirable dust in bituminous coal mines in the U.S.

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• Personal Author:
  Jacobson M
• Description:
  Concentrations of respirable dust associated with mining occupations were surveyed in United States bituminous mines (SIC-1211). Dust samples from an average of 10 working shifts were collected in 29 bituminous mines using personal samplers worn by miners working at various mining tasks and by four types of stationary air samplers. All of the samplers combined collected about 25 samples per shift. Respirable dust concentrations ranged from 1.9 to 9.8 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/cu m). Continuous miner operators and helpers were exposed to an average respirable dust concentration of about 7.0mg/cu m, and machine operators and helpers were exposed to a mean concentration of 6.0mg/cu m. About 29.5 percent of shuttle car operators were exposed to dust concentrations of 0.5 to 1.0mg/cu m, and 21.5 percent of roof bolter operators had exposures in the 1.0 to 1.5mg/cu m range. The relationship between dust concentrations sampled with the personal sampler and the Mining Research Establishment sampler was linear. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Dust Environmental Monitoring Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Coal-dust Dust-analysis Dust-collectors Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Mineral-dusts Mining-industry
• Publisher:
  Unwin Brothers Limited
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PFHG
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00117589
• Citation:
  Inhaled Particles III: Proceedings of an International Symposium Organized by the British Occupational Hygiene Society in London, September 14-23, 1970. Walton WH, ed. Old Woking, England: Unwin Brothers Limited, 1971 Jan; 2:745-756
• Editor(s):
  Walton WH
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1971
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Inhaled Particles III: Proceedings of an International Symposium Organized by the British Occupational Hygiene Society in London, September 14-23, 1970
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1e3c4ad6ef9aa3065175a420610317de482870f23686f120cd97d4a9208ee47764333cdeefebdb39862acc71de6115e690fa3c065ab6dd2684d0c5beff0b1af2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/184471/cdc_184471_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 3.87 MB ]