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 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 ...
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 ...
On April 18, 2024, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) published the long-anticipated final rule on respirable crystalline silica for coal mines and metal and nonmetal mines. As expected, ...
WASHINGTON – Black lung disease cases in coal miners have been increasing since 2000 for uncertain reasons. A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says that even ...