Limestone Mining - Is It Noisy Or Not?

Details

• Personal Author:
  Babich, Daniel R. ; Bauer, Eric R.
• Description:
  U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers are conducting a cross-sectional survey of equipment noise and worker noise exposures in the mining industry. Surface and underground limestone is one commodity recently surveyed. The sound levels of mining and processing equipment were recorded to identify noise sources. Full-shift worker noise exposures were completed to determine the exposure of various occupations. This article presents the results of the noise research conducted in both underground and surface limestone mines, detailing the equipment likely to cause worker overexposures, and the occupations experiencing overexposures. Implications for worker noise exposure reduction are also reported. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Lung Mining Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory System Safety Tuberculosis
• Keywords:
  Equipment-operators Health-hazards Hearing-loss Hearing-protection Mining-equipment Mining-industry Noise Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss Noise-levels Noise-measurement Noise-sources Nonmetal-mining Occupational-diseases Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Stone-mines Surface-mining Underground-mining Workers

  More +
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  9780873352550
• ISSN:
  1075-8623
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  37-42
• Volume:
  320
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057151
• Citation:
  Trans Soc Min Metall Explor 2007 Jan; 320:37-42
• Editor(s):
  Yernberg WR
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Hearing Loss
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:59838b91dd295ee9c8ef91fa10641895f0cedc8b835ec8b2779b76c59d02d3c232d724af4b4205c3dcd7fb28ec336d52525259b92be891228c439608c9023faa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227902/cdc_227902_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 683.81 KB ]