Miners' views about personal dust monitors

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• Personal Author:
  Hall, Erica E. ; Peters, Robert H. ; Vaught, Charles ; Volkwein, Jon C.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Description:
  "Coal workers' pneumoconiosis is the leading cause of death due to occupational illness among U.S. coal miners. This disease is caused by miners' exposure to excessive levels of respirable coal mine dust. A personal dust monitor (PDM) has recently been developed to provide near real-time feedback to miners regarding the level of respirable coal dust in the air they breathe. The main objective of this report is to document coal miners' reactions to this device and how they make use of the information it provides. It summarizes a field study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that documented the opinions of 30 miners at 4 underground coal mines concerning the use of PDMs." - p. [1]
  
  NIOSHTIC NO 20033296
  
  
• Content Notes:
  by Robert H. Peters, Charles Vaught, Erica E. Hall, and Jon C. Volkwein.
  
  "February 2008."
  
  Authors: Jon C. Volkwein, Robert P. Vinson, Steven J. Page, Linda J. McWilliams, Gerald J. Joy, Steven E. Mischler, and Donald P. Tuchman.
  
  Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (285 KB, 53 p.).
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Lung Mining Occupational Health Respiratory System Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2008110
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  print ; 47 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033296
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7233bde4a8043790ce2e5816ed16178905445cf8de3a3dc1ded0cc4b6935a6cbdb251465683e5bd1c220a4513f33228056cb433687aaa8370280fa6f80524281
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6974/cdc_6974_DS1.pdf
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