Grim, work-related deaths and ailments abound in Pancake's fiction: lungs bleed from coal dust; mine gas turns a man "blue as jeans"; another is killed by fragments of metal lodged in his brain.
Survey participants were asked questions regarding activities that may have influenced exposures through contact with contaminated solids (e.g. soil, sediment, dust, mine materials).
He also noted that mine workers had reported significant buildups of coal dust on mining belts and machinery that had not been properly cleaned.
The presence of dust rendered mining an uncomfortably intimate experience as state and corporate actors negotiated responsibility for infrastructure development.
This study examined work-related chronic abnormality in pulmonary function and work-related acute irritant symptoms associated with exposure to borate dust in mining and processing operations.
Continual exposure to mineral dust in mine shafts has resulted in high rates of silicosis.
The plan calls for overhauling the system of sampling and controlling dust in mines and comes after the United Mine Workers of America filed a lawsuit seeking changes.
Never mind that no tourist would come to Nicaro, a dust-covered mining town 500 miles from Havana, with no hotels or restaurants.
This work presents a model that can be used to forecast the transport and deposition of windblown dust from mine tailings impoundments.
He said he didn't want to scale back regulations adopted in 2014 to decrease the amount of coal and silica dust in mines, which lead to black lung and the respiratory disease known as silicosis.
