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	End Black Lung ACT NOW! "I thought I was invincible." - Chester Fike, 35 years working in mines, suffering from black lung and waiting for a lung transplant

Reports Advisory Committee Recommendations to Eliminate Black Lung and Silicosis Report of the Secretary of Labor's Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Pneumoconiosis Among Coal Mine Workers (1996) Review of the Program to Control Respirable Coal Mine Dust in the United States (Issued June 1992) NIOSH Reports CWP Prevalence in Coal Miners Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Respiralbe Coal Mine Dust (NIOSH, 1995) Pneumoconisis Prevalence 1996-2002 Pneumoconiosis Prevalence Among Working Coal Miners Examined in Federal Chest Radiograph Surveillance Programs - United States, 1996-2002 Advanced Cases of Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis - Two Counties, Virginia, 2006 (MMWR Aug 25, 2006 ) Advanced Pneumoconiosis Among Working Underground Coal Miners - Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia, 2006 Rapidly progressive coal workers' pneumoconiosis in the United States: geographic clustering and other factors Opacities Pneumoconiosis among underground bituminous coal miners in the United States: is silicosis becoming more frequent? Contributions of Dust Exposure and Cigarette Smoking to Emphysema Severity in Coal Miners in the United States Pneumoconiosis Mortality Mortality Among U.S. Underground Coal Miners: A 23-Year Follow-Up Trends in pneumoconiosis mortality and morbidity for the United States, 1968-2005, and relationship with indicators of extent of exposure Changing Patterns of Pneumoconiosis Mortality - United States, 1968 - 2000 New Personal Respirable Dust Monitor IC 9501 - Miners' Views About Personal Dust Monitors RI 9663 - Performance of a New Personal Respirable Dust Monitor for Mine Use RI 9669 - Laboratory and Field Performance of a Continuously Measuring Personal Respirable Dust Monitor   Return to Black Lung Home Page Page

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