Federal regulation capping toxic airborne silica has been decades in the making. The delay has cost miners dearly.
Coal miners, including very young ones, have developed severe respiratory disease in recent decades due in part by silica ...
Tougher federal limits on miners’ exposure to toxic silica dust are creating a slew of compliance challenges for mine ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators say stricter new rules to limit miners' exposure to ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators filed new rules to limit miners’ exposure to silica ...
The Department of Labor recently released a new rule that significantly lowers how much silica dust is legally allowed inside ...
Silica dust is a known cause of black lung disease among coal miners. The new federal rule seeks to limit their exposure.
The final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit of respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air ...
Silica dust exposure has long been linked with black lung cases in miners, and for decades leading health experts have ...
Coal miners can breathe at least a small sigh of relief with the new federal rule that cuts their exposure to silica dust.
Medical experts say data is still short on the full extent of diseases tied to silica dust — silicosis, lung cancer and black ...
The Labor Department announced Tuesday it has issued a new federal rule on miners' safety; the rule cuts down the permissible ...