Abstract Purpose of Review This review summarizes recent research on pneumoconiosis in
coal workers following the identification of the resurgence of this disease among US coal …

Occupational lung diseases are an important public health issue and are avoidable through
preventive interventions in the workplace. Up-to-date knowledge about changes in exposure …

Objectives. To update prevalence estimates for coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP)
among working underground coal miners in the United States. Methods. We conducted a …

Coal dust is a main health hazard in underground coal mines. A recent report showed that a
number of coal workers were diagnosed with pneumoconiosis in Australia. Water spray with …

This review provides an overview of literature addressing progressive massive fibrosis
(PMF) from September 2009 to the present. Advances are described in understanding its …

Rationale: There has been a resurgence of progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) in the United
States, particularly among central Appalachian miners. Objectives: We characterized the …

Background This study summarized the mass concentration and quartz mass percent of
respirable coal mine dust samples (annually, by district, and by occupation) from …

This irreversible but preventable disease currently haunts approximately 60 000 miners
across United States and millions across the world. Its resurgence despite the strict dust …

Conventional practice in monitoring and control of respirable coal mine dust has focused on
the total mass concentration and the crystalline silica mass fraction of personal exposures …

China has high and increasing annual rates of occupational lung diseases such as
pneumoconiosis and silicosis. In contrast, Australia and the United States of America (USA) …