Mapping millimetre-scale ground deformation over the underground coal mines in the Frank Slide area, Alberta, Canada, using spaceborne InSAR technology

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mei ◽  
V. Poncos ◽  
C. Froese
Keyword(s):  
Ground Deformation ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Underground Coal Mines ◽  
Slide Area

A new simple methodology for evaluation of explosion risk in underground coal mines

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1524-1529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Medic Pejic ◽  
Javier García Torrent ◽  
Enrique Querol ◽  
Kazimierz Lebecki
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mines ◽  
Underground Coal Mines ◽  
Explosion Risk

Coal mine dust lung disease in miners killed in the Upper Big Branch disaster: a review of lung pathology and contemporary respirable dust levels in underground US coal mines

2021 ◽  
pp. oemed-2021-107694
Author(s):  
Leonard H T Go ◽  
Francis H Y Green ◽  
Jerrold L Abraham ◽  
Andrew Churg ◽  
Edward L Petsonk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Tissue ◽  
Geometric Mean ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Respirable Dust ◽  
Lung Pathology ◽  
Histopathological Findings ◽  
Exposure Limit ◽  
Underground Coal Mines ◽  
The Usa

ObjectivesIn 2010, 29 coal miners died due to an explosion at the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine in West Virginia, USA. Autopsy examinations of 24 individuals with evaluable lung tissue identified 17 considered to have coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP). The objectives of this study were to characterise histopathological findings of lung tissue from a sample of UBB fatalities and better understand the respirable dust concentrations experienced by these miners at UBB relative to other US coal mines.MethodsOccupational pulmonary pathologists evaluated lung tissue specimens from UBB fatalities for the presence of features of pneumoconiosis. Respirable dust and quartz samples submitted for regulatory compliance from all US underground coal mines prior to the disaster were analysed.ResultsFamilies of seven UBB fatalities provided consent for the study. Histopathologic evidence of CWP was found in all seven cases. For the USA, central Appalachia and UBB, compliance dust samples showed the geometric mean for respirable dust was 0.468, 0.420 and 0.518 mg/m3, respectively, and respirable quartz concentrations were 0.030, 0.038 and 0.061 mg/m3. After adjusting for quartz concentrations, UBB exceeded the US permissible exposure limit (PEL) for respirable dust in 28% of samples.ConclusionsAlthough higher than average respirable dust and quartz levels were observed at UBB, over 200 US underground coal mines had higher dust concentrations than UBB and over 100 exceeded the PEL more frequently. Together with lung histopathological findings among UBB fatalities, these data suggest exposures leading to CWP in the USA are more prevalent than previously understood.

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