Underground Mining Facts – 2003

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Data from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) indicate that a total of 44,015 employees worked in underground mining locations in 2003, corresponding to 44,778 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers. In 2003, 16 occupational mining fatalities occurred in underground work locations. The underground work location fatality rate was 35.7 per 100,000 FTE workers. Within underground work locations, 2,818 nonfatal lost-time injuries resulting in 193,983 lost work days were reported to MSHA in 2003. The nonfatal lost-time injury rate was 6.3 per 100 FTEs. In 2003, 257 cases of occupational illnesses were reported to MSHA among employees in underground work locations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Hearing Loss Lung Lung Diseases Mining Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Strip Mining

  More +
• Keywords:
  Mine-workers; Miners; Mining-industry; Employees; Stone-mines; Coal-mining; Nonmetal-mining; Underground-mining; Underground-miners; Coal-miners; Lost-work-days; Injuries; Back-injuries; Hearing-loss; Hearing-impairment; Black-lung; Pneumoconiosis; Statistical-analysis; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Respiratory-system-disorders; Lung-disease; Lung-disorders
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2005-117, 2005 Feb; :1
• Series:
  Mining Publications   ; NIOSH Numbered Publications  
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• 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:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025913
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b58c5832f919992aa7e5c983632c8450b9210b103f459d3c130f02de0b28bb2523dec18f6539f23e58613f558657fd1f45770e2bfdf12b2be2f15bb6f1faec35
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6043/cdc_6043_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 194.93 KB ]