Sentence examples for coal mining dust from inspiring English sources

CWP is characterized by chronic lung inflammation and formation of fibrotic nodular lesions that results from the inhalation of airborne coal mining dust which usually contains free crystalline silica [ 1, 2].

Since 1968, more than 75,000 U.S. coal miners have died from lung diseases caused by coal mine dust, today's GAO report notes.

Medical researchers used "multiple x-ray specialists to reduce the risk of misclassifying disease," for example, and those studying mine conditions made "adjustments to coal mine dust samples where bias was suspected".

In a bid to reduce the threat, in October 2010 the Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration MSHAA) proposed reducing allowable concentrations of coal mine dust, lowering the standard from 2.0 milligrams of dust per cubic meter of air (mg/m3) to 1.0 milligram per cubic meter.

On July 11, eight employees working for Armstrong Coal in Western Kentucky were indicted for conspiracy to falsify coal mine dust sampling in the district court of Western Kentucky.

"We know well what the exposure-response relationship between coal mine dust and human health effects from black lung disease are.

He kept on — even when he began to get short of breath, even when doctors told him he had black lung disease, an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal mine dust.

That's why the Obama administration -- as a step in the right direction -- needs to finalize a rule proposed in 2010 by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to cut breathable coal mine dust in half and establish new air sampling requirements.

Exceptionally high quartz concentrations occur in coal mine dust when pneumoconiosis may progress with unusual rapidity.

Rats were exposed by inhalation to coal mine dust, titanium dioxide, or quartz.

Our study also associated the presence of chronic respiratory symptoms and exposure to quartz and respirable coal mine dust.