Monitoring and sampling approaches to assess underground coal mine dust exposures

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Label

Monitoring and sampling approaches to assess underground coal mine dust exposures

Statement of responsibility

Committee on the Study of the Control of Respirable Coal Mine Dust Exposure in Underground Mines, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources ; Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology ; Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Division on Earth and Life Studies ; Health and Medicine Division ; a consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

Creator

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.), Committee on the Study of the Control of Respirable Coal Mine Dust Exposure in Underground Mines

Author

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.), Committee on the Study of the Control of Respirable Coal Mine Dust Exposure in Underground Mines

Subject

• Lung Diseases -- etiology
• Air Pollutants, Occupational -- analysis
• Environmental Monitoring -- methods
• Dust -- analysis
• Coal -- analysis
• Occupational Exposure
• Coal Mining
• Anthracosis -- etiology

Language

eng

Summary

"Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the United States, and the nation has been a world leader in coal production for more than 100 years. According to U.S. Energy Information Administration projections to 2050, coal is expected to be an important energy resource for the United States. Additionally, metallurgical coal used in steel production remains an important national commodity. However, coal production, like all other conventional mining activities, creates dust in the workplace. Respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) comprises the size fraction of airborne particles in underground mines that can be inhaled by miners and deposited in the distal airways and gas-exchange region of the lung. Occupational exposure to RCMD has long been associated with lung diseases common to the coal mining industry, including coal workers' pneumoconiosis, also known as "black lung disease." Monitoring and Sampling Approaches to Assess Underground Coal Mine Dust Exposures compares the monitoring technologies and sampling protocols currently used or required by the United States, and in similarly industrialized countries for the control of RCMD exposure in underground coal mines. This report assesses the effects of rock dust mixtures and their application on RCMD measurements, and the efficacy of current monitoring technologies and sampling approaches. It also offers science-based conclusions regarding optimal monitoring and sampling strategies to aid mine operators' decision making related to reducing RCMD exposure to miners in underground coal mines"--Publisher's description

Member of

• Consensus study report

Cataloging source

MMU

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WF 600

Series statement

Consensus study report