The department further emphasized that "truck's cargo box shall be properly secured to prevent escape of fugitive
coal dust and/or coal spillages along the road."
Anthony's research proved, beyond any doubt, that exposure to airborne
coal dust increased miners' risk of developing lung disease.
One of the study was conducted to investigate the potential harmful element (PHE) concentrations in
coal dust and evaluate the human risk assessment and health effects near coal mining areas.
The CP material used the
coal dust, which was generated from the underground drilling construction as filler, and was supplemented by amino resin as binder, and added some other additives, such as cross-linking, foaming, toughening, and coupling agents.
When a miner is injured,
coal dust in the wound creates blue scars - which is called 'being mapped.' .' The portraits by Hilary Powell are also maps - layered coalfaces produced through the processes of stone and offset lithography and printed using
coal dust.
The research by the Australian Institute of Marine Science discovered
coal dust could also slow the growth rate of seagrasses and fish.
Local residents have campaigned against
coal dust and noise from Ffos-y-fran mine for years.
MY dad was a mining man He mined coal from the coal fields of Northumberland As a child I would hold his hand looking at the blue scars and a bullet wound he had He never complained of being ill I still remember washing his back of
coal dust and the cuts where the stone from the mine dug in, He said just wash them son just wash them I am a miner's son, we had hardship illness and fun Sliding down a slag heap on a bit of conveyor belting or corrugated tin, It wasn't a race you could win, you just dragged it up and did it again and again Between the slag heap and the farmer's field, was a stream were stickleback fish would swim, Catch them put them in a jar with string around the neck What fun we had fishing in that beck.
Thousands of violations accumulated at Upper Big Branch, the site of the disaster, involving crucial ventilation and
coal dust precautions.
Coal dust is known to cause a range of health problem primarily respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses too," said Aishwarya Mabimeni, coal campaigner of Greenpeace.
The concentration of
coal dust (Carbon and Quartz) was 4-5mg/m3 and 0.35mg/m3 respectively as against the threshold limits of 2mg/m3 and 0.05-0.1 mg/m3 for 8 hours daily and 40 hours/week.