Information Circular 8484: Respirable Dust Sampling Requirements Under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969

Details

• Personal Author:
  Peluso, Robert G. ; Schlick, Donald P.
• Description:
  Respirable dust provisions of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 are designed to protect the most important resource of the coal mining industry--its workers. The act imposes two respirable dust standards of 3.0 Milligrams per cubic meter of air after June 30, 1970, and 2.4 Milligrams per cubic meter of air after December 30, 1972. Under federal regulations, each operator is required to carry out a dust sampling program established by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. This program features the sampling of "high risk" face workers to establish that the exposure of each miner is below the dust standard. Mining sections, continuously in compliance with the regulations, may sample at less frequent intervals. In addition to requiring the mining company to take respirable dust samples, the Bureau of Mines will perform in- depth dust inspections twice a year, as well as frequent "spot inspections." The Bureau has established a semiautomatic computerized operation capable of processing over 1 million samples per year. This facility will be linked to various Bureau offices by a telecommunications system to provide automatic data printouts within hours after samples have been weighed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Coal Coal Mining Dust Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  40 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10009366
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-193981
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB 193 981 :35 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1970
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB 193 981
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5177601a5d0885188f2e1233fefc07e135dee888f8a3a3ed40d446d97235626f1f3d6bd7cca7c1b0afea936023520ffa7cbf313ba553113ee7caf72fc57eb988
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206234/cdc_206234_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.97 MB ]