COAL WORKERS' HEALTH SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

Programs

Mining Safety and Health

Respiratory Diseases

Surveillance

Multimedia

Black Lung: Don’t Become a Victim – A NIOSH poster promoting participation in the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2003-123 (2003)

Faces of Black Lung (Video), DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2008-131

Slide Show: Lung sections from victims of pneumoconiosis

Publications

Rapid Progression of Black Lung Disease Highlights Need for Regular Screening
NIOSH Research Rounds – Volume 3, Number 1 (July 2017)

High Blood Pressure and Obesity in Miners
NIOSH Science Blog – Posted August 9, 2017

Resurgence of Progressive Massive Fibrosis in Coal Miners — Eastern Kentucky, 2016
MMWR Weekly / December 16, 2016 / 65(49);1385–1389

Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis-Related Years of Potential Life Lost Before Age 65 Years – United States, 1968-2006, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, December 2009;58(50);1412-1416.

Code of Federal Regulations 42CFR37 Specifications of Medical Examinations of Underground Coal Miners

Current Intelligence Bulletin 64: Coal Mine Dust Exposures and Associated Health Outcomes – A Review of Information Published Since 1995, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication Number 2011-172
NIOSH published this current intelligence bulletin that reviews information on occupational lung diseases of coal miners.This Current Intelligence Bulletin updates the information on coal mine dust exposures and associated health effects from 1995 to the present. The Bulletin refers extensively to the 1995 NIOSH publication – Criteria for a Recommended Standard – Occupational Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust -https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/95-106/).

NIOSH/DRDS/CWHSP Celebrates the 35th Anniversary of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act

Pneumoconiosis Prevalence Among Working Coal Miners Examined in Federal Chest Radiograph Surveillance Programs – United States, 1996-2002, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 2003;52(15):336-340.

Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance System (eWoRLD), Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis and Related Exposures

American College of Radiology (ACR) 

Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA) 

Campaign to End Black Lung Now and Forever 

Federal Mine Safety & Health Act of 1977 

Government Accountability Office, Reports and Key Studies Support the Scientific Conclusions Underlying the Proposed Exposure Limit for Respirable Coal Mine Dust, GAO-12-832R, Aug 17, 2012 

Mine Safety and Health Administration 

Resurgence of a debilitating and entirely preventable respiratory disease among working coal miners

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Black Lung Clinics Program