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 ...
The Department of Labor recently released a new rule that significantly lowers how much silica dust is legally allowed inside ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators filed new rules to limit miners’ exposure to silica ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators say stricter new rules to limit miners' exposure to ...
It was a celebratory moment years in the making when acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, flanked by miners and advocates, ...
Silica dust exposure has long been linked with black lung cases in miners, and for decades leading health experts have ...
The final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit of respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air ...
Coal miners can breathe at least a small sigh of relief with the new federal rule that cuts their exposure to silica dust.
The Labor Department announced Tuesday it has issued a new federal rule on miners' safety; the rule cuts down the permissible ...
For miners and other stone cutters, silica is a serious health hazard. New rules announced on Tuesday set strict limits on ...