This report compares the monitoring technologies and sampling protocols currently used or required by the United States, and in similarly industrialized countries for the control of respirable coal ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has announced that 99 percent of the coal mine dust samples collected from April 1, 2016, through June 30, 2016, were in compliance with its coal mine dust ...

The next big step in MSHA's "End Black Lung -- Act Now" campaign will be published Oct. 19, the agency announced Thursday. Its fact sheet and explanation of the new proposed rule says it will halve ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration reports that a recent sampling of respirable coal dust shows that phase II of the federal rule is having a "significantly positive" impact. Approximately 99 ...

Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a human carcinogen. [1] Occupational exposure to RCS results in adverse health effects ...

MSHA has issued a final rule aimed at lowering miners’ exposure to respirable coalmine dust in underground and surface coalmines. According to MSHA, the final rule lowers levels of miners’ exposure to ...

According to Casella, a company that supplies dust, noise, and vibration monitoring equipment, the Centers for Disease Control estimates that 1.7 workers in the United States are exposed to respirable ...