Mining

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• Personal Author:
  Kohler, Jeffrey L.
• Description:
  Mining is a basic industry, providing modern society with the energy and material resources required for everyday life as we have come to enjoy it. Minerals production can be divided into two general phases. The extraction phase is concerned with removing the material from the earth; the processing phase separates the valuable component from the less valuable or waste material. The term "mining" is used to describe the extraction phase, while processing is used to describe the phase of preparing the product for human use. Usually, the workers involved in both phases are called miners or mineworkers. In its simplest definition, mining includes all of the job processes required to produce a mineral commodity in salable form. In the course of meeting society's direct and multifaceted needs for mineral commodities, mineworkers have been killed, others have suffered lost-time injuries, and still others have endured the silent progression of occupational illnesses brought on by excess exposures to noise, dust, or other potentially harmful substances. At the end of the 19th century, mining fatalities within the United States numbered greater than 2,000 per year; today the figure is less than 100 per year. Similar reductions have occurred for many injury classes and occupational illnesses. In some parts of the world, these metrics are slightly better than in the United States and in other parts are far worse. Efforts within the United States by organized labor and progressive companies, research in university and government labs, and increasingly stringent regulations by state and federal agencies have all had a positive impact on mineworkers. Nonetheless, mining occurs under extremely difficult, and sometimes unpredictable, physical and environmental conditions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Coal Coal Mining Cumulative Trauma Disorders Dust Fatigue Fungi Geology Hazardous Substances Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Heat Stress Disorders Hot Temperature Lung Lung Diseases Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Metals Minerals Mining Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Noise Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Shift Work Schedule Silicon Dioxide Vehicle Emissions

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• Keywords:
  Back-injuries Black-lung Coal-dust Coal-miners Coal-mining Coal-workers Coal-workers-pneumoconiosis Cumulative-trauma-disorders Diesel-exhausts Dusts Fumes Gases Gold-mines Hazards Health-hazards Hearing-loss Heat-stress Heat-stroke Injuries Injury-prevention Knee-disorders Longwall-mining Lost-work-days Lung-disease Materials-handling Metal-mining Mine-workers Mineral-deposits Mineral-processing Miners Mining-equipment Mining-industry Molds Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss Nonmetal-mining Occupational-health Occupational-respiratory-disease Pneumoconiosis Respirable-dust Room-and-pillar-mining Safety-research Sand-and-gravel-mines Shift-work Silica-dusts Silicosis Stone-mines Stress Surface-mining Traumatic-injuries Underground-miners Underground-mining Workers

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  9780721689746
• Publisher:
  Elsevier Saunders
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Nevada ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania ; Wyoming
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  201-214
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026978
• Citation:
  Textbook of clinical occupational and environmental medicine, second edition. Rosenstock L, Cullen M, Brodkin C, Redlich C, eds. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders, 2005 Jan; :201-214
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Office of the Associate Director for Mining and Construction, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Editor(s):
  Rosenstock L; Cullen MR; Brodkin CA; Redlich CA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Textbook of clinical occupational and environmental medicine, second edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b76bf7804c098ca05c03d53541262446a805d2002d4f3889b2165ecaef1a567fd8c122952f63c4f1be70e34c62716b1c55ffc6d7e3c43b03687e93a00de26bbf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221012/cdc_221012_DS1.pdf
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