Coal Mine Dust: Health Reviews and Key Studies

ISBN: 9781624170973 出版年：2013 页码：83 Patrick Fitzhugh Eileen Margach Nova Science

Coal mine dust is one of the most serious occupational hazards in the coal mining industry, and overexposure can cause coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and a number of other lung diseases, collectively referred to a black lung disease. CWP has been the underlying or contributing cause of death for more than 75,000 coal miners since 1968. This book provides an overview of key studies, background history and health reviews on occupational exposure to respirable coal mine dust.