Mining Facts for 2000

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• Journal Article:
  National Intsitute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A total of 14,413 mining operations reported employment to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Mine operators reported 240,000 full-time equivalent workers (down 3.9 percent from 1999). Eighty-four (84) work-related mine fatalities occurred in 2000 compared to 90 the year before. There were 10,839 nonfatal lost-time injuries reported to MSHA, occurring at a rate of 3.8 injuries per 100 full-time equivalent workers, and resulting in a total of 417,918 lost workdays. Seven hundred sixty-seven (767) cases of occupational illness were reported to MSHA. All employees include workers of the coal, metal, nonmetal, stone, sand and gravel operations, and coal and metal/nonmetal independent contractors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Coal Coal Mining Mining Mortality Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Miners; Mine-workers; Mining-industry; Mortality-data; Employees; Underground-miners; Underground-mining; Coal-miners; Coal-mining; Injuries; Occupational-diseases; Traumatic-injuries; Lost-work-days; Statistical-analysis
• 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. 2002-145, 2002 May; :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 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory ; SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021976
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:66d529c33d3630ee46eb252da464e8d8d708a2d0c52aeece9c67b4ef92d5d1ce8f492f8606212c22f2469f1e32efd37f31ff02b14a7435e63838d80d9c1a5f82
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/8327/cdc_8327_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 289.13 KB ]