Miners Tell Trump Silica Dust Rule ‘Desperately’ Needed to Curb Black Lung Disease June 7, 2019 By Jan Pytalski The head of the national coal miners’ union on Thursday urged the Trump administration to impose regulation on silica dust...
Safety Agency Finds 10% of Veteran Coal Miners Have Black Lung Disease July 20, 2018 By Richard Valdmanis More than 10 percent of America’s coal miners with 25 or more years of experience have black lung disease, the...
Coal Industry Tax Cut Threatens Miners’ Benefits Fund as Black Lung Cases Surge June 1, 2018 By Valerie Volcovici As a young man, Barry Shrewsbury dug coal in the West Virginia mines and spent his time off hunting and...
Amazon, Lowe’s, Tesla Make ‘Dirty Dozen’ Unsafe Workplace List May 2, 2018 Amazon, Lowe’s and Tesla are among the firms on a list of employers with unsafe workplaces published by a federation...
Study Finds 36% of Forestry Workers with Noisy Jobs Suffer Hearing Loss April 3, 2018 About 15 percent of noise-exposed workers in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (AFFH) sector experience hearing loss, according to...
Law Enforcement Officers 3 Times More Likely to Be Injured Than Other Workers February 22, 2018 An estimated 669,100 law enforcement officers were treated in emergency departments across the nation for nonfatal injuries between 2003 and...
How the U.S. Can Improve Workplace Injury and Illness Data January 18, 2018 By Denise Johnson Federal agency officials involved in reducing work-related injuries and illnesses believe there is still a lot to learn about the...
Workplace Injuries Less Likely Where Employers Provide Paid Sick Leave September 21, 2012 Workers with access to paid sick leave are 28 percent less likely overall to suffer nonfatal occupational injuries than workers...
Suspect Air Packs Still Being Used at Coal Mines April 25, 2012 Two years of testing have found a critical defect in a certain model of emergency breathing devices used in U.S....