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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

An underground mine consists of the portals (entrance and exits to the mines), mains, submains, panels, and working faces. The panels are the working sections of the production operation. Depending on ...

Federal regulators have announced the results of a September inspection blitz targeting 13 coal mines in seven states "previously cited for violations regarding respirable dust sampling ... inadequate ...

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 ...

ABINGDON, Va. — A Grundy coal company owner must serve three months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit dust-sampling fraud. Daniel Tucker, 57, the owner of D&H Mining ...

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 ...