Dust Control on Longwalls: Assessment of the State of the Art

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• Personal Author:
  Colinet, Jay F. ; Rider, James P.
• Description:
  Operating practices and resulting production from longwall faces are continually improving. Consequently, longwall operators are continually seeking to improve the dust control capabilities on longwalls. NIOSH has been conducting dust surveys at longwalls throughout the country in an effort to document the types of controls that are being used and to quantify the relative effectiveness of these controls. To date, surveys have been completed at longwalls in Alabama, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Utah, and West Virginia. In addition, NIOSH has been reviewing longwall dust parameters provided by mine operators to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to assess the status of dust control technology being used throughout the industry. Results from the underground dust surveys and information obtained from MSHA are summarized in this paper to provide an update on longwall dust control technology and practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Hazardous Substances Lung Lung Diseases Mining Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Coal-workers-pneumoconiosis Dust-control Dust-exposure Dust-sampling Health-hazards Longwall-mining Lung-disease Mine-workers Miners Mining-industry Occupational-health Pneumoconiosis Pulmonary-system-disorders Respirable-dust Respiratory-system-disorders Sampling Underground-mining

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  0415401488
• Publisher:
  Taylor & Francis Group
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; Colorado ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Pennsylvania ; Utah ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  225-232
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030314
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 11th U.S./North American Mine Ventilation Symposium, University Park, Pennsylvania, June 5-7, 2006. Mutmansky JM, Ramani RV. eds., London, U.K.: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006 Jun; :225-232
• Editor(s):
  Mutmansky JM; Ramani RV
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5bb8772ce15b0caa94a5537d497bd9fa58ddf2f8df5bccf97bf3dd1e39dfde934433ab0a05ccb6cfab527d9a79dd948d257fdaf376f8aadb929f9a02ff7a79b8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221209/cdc_221209_DS1.pdf
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