Coal miners, including very young ones, have developed severe respiratory disease in recent decades due in part by silica ...

The mortal danger to construction workers from silica dust is getting worse Stonemason Stuart Johnson would come home from ...

The Exposure Control Plan is available from EH&S. Silica dust hazard training is required of all individuals prior to performing work that involves crystalline silica. Before conducting work that ...

One federal government agency is pausing enforcement of a landmark rule designed to protect mine workers from toxic silica ...

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia, along with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, criticized the Department ...

New federal rule to limit coal miners’ exposure to silica dust — a leading cause of black lung disease — is being delayed ...

A federal court has granted an industry request to put on hold a landmark rule designed to reduce mine worker exposure to ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday halted implementation of a long-delayed silica dust rule, blaming federal staffing cuts ...

“Without those resources, it’s going to be extremely hard to monitor and control the effects of silica dust levels in the mine,” she said. Exposure to silica dust can cause severe lung diseas ...

The 14 workers’ diagnoses raise many questions, including whether well-known measures to prevent inhalation of silica dust, such as water suppression, fit-tested respirators, on-tool extraction ...