Title:
This historical image, which was provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (
Description:
This historical image, which was provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), depicted two miners drilling into a subterranean coal seam using a pneumatically-powered rotary drill. The men were not wearing a filtered breathing mask, goggles, gloves, or ear plugs, all of which would be required as standard protective accessories today. Mining coal, especially under circumstances such as these close quarters, facilitated coal dust inhalation, thereby, predisposing miners to the long-term negative health effects of this profession such as 'black lung disease', or 'coal-workers' pneumoconiosis' (CWP). Today, the Federal government's stringent regulations on the level of coal dust permissible in the air of a coal mine, and the requisite use of filtered breathing devices, has dramatically lowered the number of cases of black lung disease.
Creator:
CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH
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Date Added:
December 4, 2012