NIOSH Mining Related Research

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• Personal Author:
  Merchant, James A.
• Description:
  It is a pleasure to participate in this Tenth Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety, and Research. A representative from our laboratory has participated in this symposium for the last several years and we look forward to participation in the years to come. Today I will focus on mining related research currently being conducted by the Division of Respiratory Disease Studies which has principal responsibility within NIOSH and the Public Health Service for occupational respiratory disease research, energy occupational health effects research, and mining (both coal and metal and non-metal) research. Some mining research dealing with inhalation toxicology, ergonomics, radiation, and other physical agents is conducted in NIOSH laboratories located in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, the vast majority of mining related research is conducted out of the Appalachian Laboratory in Morgantown. I will cover only our field based research projects in three areas - coal mining, metal and non-metal mining, and energy. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Construction Industry Dust Fibrosis Mining Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Radiography Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Vehicle Emissions

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• Keywords:
  Cement-industry Coal-miners Coal-mining Construction-industry Construction-workers Diesel-exhausts Dust-analysis Dust-control Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Oil-shale Pneumoconiosis Pulmonary-system-disorders Respirable-dust Respiratory-system-disorders Underground-miners Underground-mining X-ray-analysis X-ray-diagnosis

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• Publisher:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia ; 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:
  113-121
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030915
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 28-30, 1979. Shaw CT, ed., Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979 Aug; :113-121
• Editor(s):
  Shaw CT
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 10th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 28-30, 1979
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:429c296326a08e966d34ae5b99da9ea86065070b22f6770a4b6724a1d6421883431b67b9e3fc350eca381c8a3f61a2a0cdc4c54621c1adc7ba078b3168f7a2d9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191354/cdc_191354_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.22 MB ]