On April 16, the DOL announced that its Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule to better protect the nation’s miners from health hazards associated with exposure to respirable ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has updated regulations to protect miners from the effects of respirable crystalline silica, commonly known as silica dust. According to a recent ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has proposed a more stringent silica dust exposure rule to protect miners. The United Mine Workers of America and Sen. Joe Manchin are ...

UNIONTOWN, Penn. — Miners and mining labor leaders with U.S. Department of Labor Acting Secretary Julie Su on Tuesday to celebrate DOL’s final rule to protect miners from silica dust. “Today we’re ...

Silica dust, thrown into the air while mining, has contributed to a staggering rise in cases of progressive, incurable, and deadly black lung disease in America’s coal miners. The insidious ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has started a proceeding to formally gather additional information on silica-based black lung disease in a move that union leaders say simply allows ...

Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a human carcinogen. [1] Occupational exposure to RCS results in adverse health effects ...

Mark Rankin left the coal mines, but the coal mines haven’t left Mark Rankin. Stocky and broad shouldered, the retired Uniontown-area coal miner trekked to a Washington County health clinic to see if ...

Those were the words of Acting U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Julie Su, who was in Uniontown Tuesday to announce the finalization of the new federal Silica Dust Exposure Rule, meant to protect ...

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 ...