Health issues common to all mining.

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• Personal Author:
  Grayson, R. Larry ; Scott D
• Description:
  Several serious and persistent health issues are common to all mining operations. Data on many of the health issues in the mining industry are scarce. Illness rates and the cost of health-related illness and disease in the mining industry are not well known or readily available. Substantial research is progressing to address the issues, including at NIOSH SRL and PRL. This paper will briefly examine the current status of health-related issues regarding coal dust, silica dust, diesel particulate, asbestos, noise, lead, arsenic, silver, cadmium, and beryllium exposures to miners as well as research and other activities aimed at protecting miners. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Arsenic Asbestos Beryllium Cadmium Coal Coal Mining Dust Inorganic Chemicals Lead Mining Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Silicon Dioxide Silver

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• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Occupational-health; Diseases; Occupational-diseases; Coal-mining; Coal-dust; Silica-dusts; Particulate-dust; Particulates; Asbestos-dust; Lead-dust; Lead-compounds; Occupational-exposure; Arsenic-compounds; Silver-compounds; Cadmium-compounds; Cadmium-dust; Beryllium-compounds
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgical, and Exploration Engineers
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024109
• Citation:
  Annual Meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., 2003 Feb; :1-15
• CAS Registry Number:
  Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2) ; Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7) ; Cadmium (CAS RN 7440-43-9) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9) ; Silver (CAS RN 7440-22-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Annual Meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgical, and Exploration Engineers
• End Date:
  20050930
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/238280/cdc_238280_DS1.pdf
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