The long-awaited rule will limit miners’ exposure to the dangerous dust, which can lead to incurable and debilitating lung disease. The Biden administration unveiled a final mining rule Tuesday that ...
A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR A Kentucky coal company and one of ...
A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust, silica and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR During the 15 years that ...
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. — A Harlan County, Ky. man will spend time in prison for lying about fake coal dust samples sent to federal regulators. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of ...
Coal miner Scott Tiller works next to a drill in an underground coal mine roughly 40-inches-high in Welch, West Virginia. May 11, 2016. (Photo by: Scott Tiller, AP Images). This story originally ...
A coal dust examiner who worked for a Kentucky mining company has been sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying dust samples and lying to federal officials. Walter Perkins' employer, Black ...
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Study Reveals Hidden Threat in Coal Mine Dust
In a breakthrough study published in Scientific Reports, scientists have uncovered a crucial, often-overlooked hazard in coal mine dust—agglomerates hiding harmful silica particles. These microscopic ...
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