Overview of Coal Miner Health Research at the Appalachian Laboratories

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• Personal Author:
  Reger RB ; Reger RB
• Description:
  The purpose of this paper is to make known the various areas of research being conducted at the Appalachian Laboratories in Morgantown, West Virginia, which relate to coal miners in the United States. My apologies for not presenting this work with the traditional introduction, methodology, results, and discussion. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Fibrosis Mining Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Radiography Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Vehicle Emissions

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• Keywords:
  Coal-miners Coal-mining Diesel-exhausts Dust-analysis Dust-control Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Mine-workers Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates 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 ; Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALOSH - Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health ; ALOSH - Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  117-125
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030936
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 8th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 30 - September 1, 1977. Foreman WE, ed. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977 Sep; :117-125
• Editor(s):
  Foreman WE ; Foreman WE
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 8th Annual Institute on Coal Mining Health, Safety and Research, Blacksburg, Virginia, August 30 - September 1, 1977
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1bc86ee2e86ef42743838e365ada7c80bf2927a93506516a6fb55b06cbb46f32aea500face28ad572eb65ffd80b95ce0ef957cc443a493e2a0e67fbc4d87d72d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191364/cdc_191364_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.75 MB ]