Prevent black lung disease : why black lung screenings are important for coal miners

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program
• Description:
  During extraction, transport, and processing of coal in underground and surface mining operations, coal miners can be exposed to significant amounts of respirable coal mine dust in the air. Inhaling particles of coal mine dust into the lungs causes several types of lung disease. These can be severe enough to cause breathing impairment, disability, and death. One of these diseases is coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, or black lung.
  
  A message from the NIOSH Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program.
  
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  CWHSP-infographic-FINAL.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anthracosis Coal Mining Humans Occupational Diseases
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Genre:
  Infographic
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/85907/cdc_85907_DS1.pdf
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