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Autor:
Emanuele Cauda, Claudette M. St. Croix, Luis A. Ortiz, Ming Sun, Jonathan Franks, Linda McWilliams, Michelangelo Di Giuseppe, Steven E. Mischler
Publikováno v:
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology (London, England)
Background Occupational exposure to crystalline silica is a well-established occupational hazard. Once in the lung, crystalline silica particles can result in the activation of alveolar macrophages (AM), potentially leading to silicosis, a fibrotic l
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 54:727-733
Background Particulate exposure from air pollution increases the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality. Although coal miners are highly exposed to coal dust particulate, studies of IHD mortality risk among coal miners have had inconsistent r
Autor:
Linda McWilliams, Donald P. Tuchman, Gerald J. Joy, Robert P. Vinson, Steven E. Mischler, Steven J. Page, Jon C. Volkwein
Publikováno v:
J. Environ. Monit.. 10:96-101
The United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, through an informal partnership with industry, labor, and the United States Mine Safety and Health Administration, has developed and tested a new instrument known as the Persona
Publikováno v:
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 2:29-37
Diesel particulate matter (DPM) samples from underground metal/nonmetal mines are collected on quartz fiber filters and measured for carbon content using National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Method 5040. If size-selective samplers ar
Publikováno v:
Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene. 4(9)
This article examines the spatial variability of dust concentrations within a coal miner's breathing zone and the impact of sampling location at the cap lamp, nose, and lapel. Tests were conducted in the National Institute for Safety and Health Pitts
Publikováno v:
Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene. 1(8)
The objectives of this study were to describe workplace noise exposures, risk factors for hearing loss, and hearing levels among sand and gravel miners, and to determine whether full shift noise exposures resulted in changes in hearing thresholds fro