Workers in mining. Medical search. Frequent questions

This aerial photo taken on Feb 23, 2023 shows rescue vehicles near the site of a collapsed coal mine in Alxa League, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Martin County Judge Executive Lon Lafferty addresses reporters outside a road leading to the abandoned Martin Mine Prep Plant in Inez, K.Y. where the collapse of an 11-story tipple killed at least one man on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (kron4.com)
The 41-year-old former BHP labour hire worker died from a serious heart condition on 6 November 2023. (aprs.com.au)

Simply enter the organization's name (UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL) or EIN (237119853) in the 'Search Term' field. (charitynavigator.org)
Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › West Virginia › Southern District of West Virginia › 1982 › Kolata v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, ETC. (justia.com)
Excerpts from the text of the 1912 United Mine Workers of America Constitution. (dp.la)
United Mine Workers of America, excerpts from "Constitution of International Union, United Mine Workers of America," Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/8f2cd74c55ed47e1775e57c1f78d167c. (dp.la)
FILE - Members and supporters of the of the United Mine Workers of America demonstrate outside BlackRock headquarters on Nov. 4, 2021, in New York. (fox4kc.com)
A federal oversight board ordered the United Mine Workers of America on July 22, 2022, to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company where members have been on strike for more than a year, a ruling the union said Wednesday, Aug. 3, it would challenge. (fox4kc.com)

Methods This was a cross-sectional study which evaluated 48 retired workers exposed more than 15 years to asbestos at aluminium mining industry at Poços de Caldas - Brazil. (bmj.com)
These measures may possibly decrease the risk for developing lung diseases associated in asbestos' exposed mining workers. (bmj.com)
Background: Asbestos mining and other activities have left a legacy of environmental contamination. (bvsalud.org)
workers remain at risk of exposure due to asbestos-containing materials which persist in the environment. (bvsalud.org)

The situation "demands the Canadian government's intervention to defend the democratic rights of workers and communities affected by a Canadian mining company's operations," said Ken Neumann, the union's National Director for Canada, in a statement . (mining.com)

The following graphs, maps, and tables present 1983-2022 data for all mining in the U.S. by mining sector. (cdc.gov)
It has become very clear to the affected workers and other stakeholders' including the union (ZDAMWU) that the organisation is in financial distress," ZDAMWU General Secretary, Justice Chinhema said in a letter dated September 26, 2022 to RioZim Chairman, Saleem Beebeejaun. (newzimbabwe.com)
31 August, 2022 Unions in Madagascar are concerned that the mining code - the country's legal framework for mining development - is silent on workers' and human rights. (industriall-union.org)

In 1999, the NIOSH Mining Program expanded its research into noise-induced hearing loss by developing a 32-foot long trailer into a mobile laboratory. (cdc.gov)
Using a sound insulated booth, NIOSH personnel can conduct hearing tests and hearing protection evaluations at mine sites. (cdc.gov)

Caterpillar is one of the world's best-known manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives and has over 90 years' experience working with miners and the mining industry. (mining-technology.com)
An unidentified worker died of a head injury Friday at CONSOL Energy's McElroy mine in Marshall County, and the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training said it was investigating. (manufacturing.net)
West Virginia led the nation in coal mining fatalities last year, accounting for seven of the 20 miners killed on the job. (manufacturing.net)
A coal company closed a mine in Tennessee and laid off miners belonging to one of petitioner's local unions. (chanrobles.com)
Unable to break the Mexican Miners and Metalworkers Union at Cananea, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world (seen here in an aerial shot), the mine owner is now trying to buy the workers with a big severance package. (labornotes.org)
Firings, threats, violence, court orders, an intimidating police presence, and the organization of rival company unions have not during all this time been able to break the Mexican Miners and Metalworkers Union at the Cananea mine. (labornotes.org)
While Mexican media have reported that miners were lining up for their severance, Sergio Tolano Lizárraga, leader of Local 65 at Cananea, tells the press that the only workers who have filed for the severance were a few scabs who were brought in last year to try to break the strike. (labornotes.org)
The Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union situation, however, is quite different, since the miners and metal workers have never permitted themselves to be completely ejected from the workplace. (labornotes.org)
Miners who have been on strike for the past 11 days at the Media Luna mine in the Mexican state of Guerrero say that they might ramp up actions and shut down two more sections of the mine if their demands keep getting ignored. (mining.com)
Revising the mining code provides the government with the opportunity to include the creation of decent jobs, protection of workers' rights including for women miners, living wages, social dialogue, and social protection. (industriall-union.org)
While recognizing that mining is a male-dominated sector, it is important to stress that women miners should not be discriminated through exclusion from the mining code. (industriall-union.org)
From mid-2010 until early 2011, the workers of Local 142 of the National Union of Miners, Metalworkers and Related Industries of Mexico went on strike against the Canadian company Gammon Gold (now called AuRico Gold ), which owns the El Cubo mine, near the city of Guanajuato in central Mexico. (miningwatch.ca)
In national debates over the 1917 constitution, Guanajuato's miners were held up as examples as workers fighting for fair wages and labour rights. (miningwatch.ca)
Many miners and observers in Guanajuato see Canadian companies as more exploitative and their jobs as more unsafe and unfairly remunerated than in the previous thirty years, when Mexican companies and a cooperative largely ran the district's mines. (miningwatch.ca)
According to the union, during the last great bonanza of 1981-82, the miners reaped benefits along with the mine-owners. (miningwatch.ca)
Exposures in coal mining are heterogenous, which contributes to a wide spectrum of disease in coal miners. (msdmanuals.com)

Bowie Resource Partners says the job losses are a result of its suspended underground longwall mining operations. (cpr.org)
The company is preparing a new longwall panel for mining that is expected to take about a year. (cpr.org)
The McElroy mine is a huge longwall operation in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle that the company's website says produced 9.4 million tons of steam coal last year. (manufacturing.net)

The workers have tabled their demands to the chairperson that the company must in the next seven days resolve, "All outstanding salaries be paid in full to everyone owed within the (7) seven days of receiving this letter. (newzimbabwe.com)
The union demands for decent work guarantees in the mining code must be supported. (industriall-union.org)
The coal workers have raised five main demands. (cgpi.org)

A diverse range of minerals has been extracted by underground mining, ranging from industrial minerals such as limestone through to precious metals like gold. (geni.com)
Through the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU), the workers argue that they cannot continue folding their hands while the mine continues experiencing challenges, which include non payment of salaries. (newzimbabwe.com)
Madagascar is rich in minerals that can be exploited for the development of the island, and these minerals are mined by workers. (industriall-union.org)
Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union organising secretary Mr Tarisai Mhiko confirmed receiving a report from workers at the lime manufacturing plant. (nehandaradio.com)
Persons who work in a mine to extract ore or MINERALS from the earth. (bvsalud.org)
Mares introduced the topic by defining conflict minerals and talking about the policy and legal frameworks for combatting illegal mining in place in OECD countries, the EU and US. (lu.se)
He said workers extracting these minerals are only able to work for ten years since their bodies break down at a young age. (lu.se)

We are not going to allow them to drive us out because this is a labour strike, not a blockade, and we are not violating company officials or local authorities' rights to go in and out of the mine," Pérez Morones said in a press release (in Spanish ). (mining.com)
Neumann cited the Trudeau government's claims that it wants 'progressive labour standards' in a new NAFTA to improve wages and working conditions for Mexican workers. (mining.com)
To build trade union capacity and a labour perspective on the mining code, the IndustriALL Sub Saharan Africa regional office commissioned a study by two experts Mutuso Dhliwayo, from the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association and Toky Ravoavy, an independent consultant, to help unions develop a deeper understanding and learning of the provisions of the mining code and what it means for workers. (industriall-union.org)
While the strike has now been resolved and most of the workers are back at work, the strike raised important issues about labour relations between Canadian mining companies and workers and surrounding communities. (miningwatch.ca)
Despite this, the union received an injunction halting the Labour Board's decision and stating Gammon Gold could not legally fire the striking workers. (miningwatch.ca)

A Chinese coal mining company has announced it is laying off 100,000 workers, accounting for approximately 40% of its labor force. (cleantechnica.com)
The mine was believed to be producing around 100,000 tons a year in the 1890s, which reduced to 60,000 tons by 1923. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
Many make over $100,000 a year mining, with another 1,000 other suppliers who rely on the mine. (globalnews.ca)

One particular day I remember in this context is when I visited several villages located near stone quarrying sites in Mahoba district (Uttar Pradesh) and heard several farmers say that their farming is being ruined by the dust and water scarcity created by mining units and stone crushers. (countercurrents.org)
I kept thinking of the risk of injury faced by those who live in the shadow of such mining and all its dust as well. (countercurrents.org)
The workers are claiming that they are being forced to work without protective gear such as dust mask, overalls and safety shoes. (nehandaradio.com)
Potential reasons hypothesized for the increase include longer working hours, increased exposure to respirable coal mine dust including crystalline silica, possibly related to challenges in effective dust control faced by small mines and during the mining of thin coal seams surrounded by rock. (cdc.gov)
Silicosis has become less common since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) created regulations requiring the use of protective equipment, which limits the amount of silica dust workers inhale. (medlineplus.gov)
Adverse health effects related to exposure to dust produced from quarries has been reported among workers in Palestine (3,4), but no research which examines the effects of dust exposure on populations living close to quarry and stone cutting sites has been completed. (who.int)
Coal worker pneumoconiosis results from the inhalation of dust generated by the drilling, blasting, or crushing of coal and by the equipment and processes used to extract coal. (msdmanuals.com)
that results from exposure to coal mining dust. (msdmanuals.com)
Possible explanations for the increased silica exposure include disregard for health and safety regulations, greater silica content in the coal mining dust, less accessible coal seams that require cutting through more rock, and changes in work practices, such as the use of high-powered equipment that can produce more dust with finer particles. (msdmanuals.com)
Coal worker pneumoconiosis is caused by chronic inhalation of coal mining dust, typically for ≥ 10 years. (msdmanuals.com)
Cumulative dust exposure is the most important risk factor in the development of coal worker pneumoconiosis. (msdmanuals.com)
The quantity of respirable crystalline silica in coal mining dust is also an important risk factor for progressive disease. (msdmanuals.com)

Again Ahmednagar was crucial and again by strike action for higher wages for farm workers. (epw.in)
Latinx communities in the US work under a bigoted immigration regime where workers are disempowered at workplaces through low wages, and lower access to both health care and better job opportunities. (mining-technology.com)
We are totally surprised and disappointed by your organisation which we regard as one of the biggest employer and economic enabler in this country that it can subject its workers to the worst conditions like non-payment of wages when production is happening. (newzimbabwe.com)
During consultative meetings on the code, the unions had presented their expectations, which included the protection of workers' rights and the rights of women in the mining sector, improved working conditions including curbing long working hours, ensuring health and safety in the mines, and paying living wages that catered for the cost of living. (industriall-union.org)
A Zimbabwean rights group on Tuesday accused Chinese-run mining companies of "rampant abuse" after two workers were shot and wounded, allegedly by their Chinese boss, after they complained about outstanding wages. (scmp.com)
Police in the central city of Gweru said the dispute erupted on June 21, when coal mine owner Zhang Xuelin, 41, reneged on a promise to pay wages in US dollars instead of the local currency, whose value is fast depreciating. (scmp.com)
The workers say the merger did go through and the company is making big profits, but their wages remain frozen. (newfm.com.au)
Since then, coal workers have continued their struggle and succeeded in gaining legal recognition for many of their rights, including minimum wages, social security and decent working conditions fit for human beings. (cgpi.org)

The mine includes nearly 1,000 acres of heap leach pads where acidified solution is distributed over crushed rock to remove copper deposits, and it requires near-constant maintenance to comply with environmental regulations. (sltrib.com)

With six mineworkers killed and 48 injured in an underground fire at Palabora Copper Mine in the Limpopo Province caused by a burning conveyor belt, increasingly South African mines are becoming death-traps for mine workers. (workers-iran.org)
Since January 55 mineworkers have been killed in mine accidents. (workers-iran.org)

Police have detained workers suspected of being responsible for the collapsed open-pit coal mine in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the headquarters for rescue operations announced on Thursday. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Five mines, two open-pit and three underground, participated in the project. (irsst.qc.ca)
Production at Cananea, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world, has been stopped since July 2007. (labornotes.org)

The mine shut down abruptly on March 18, 2020, sparking an emergency order from the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining. (sltrib.com)
Approximately 14.7 million Latinx workers lost their jobs since February 2020, with payroll enrolments being 10% below its February levels in the end of June. (mining-technology.com)

The most widespread mining in India relates to mining and quarrying of various kinds of stone aimed at supplying stone to construction sector. (countercurrents.org)
In many cases stone crushing units are set up close to these mining and quarrying works and their combined impact must be seen. (countercurrents.org)
This report has made several observations about the mining and quarrying sector ( mainly stone and sand) in Bundelkhand region. (countercurrents.org)

Office workers are excluded from fatalities and injuries. (cdc.gov)
A mining disaster is defined as an incident with 5 or more fatalities. (cdc.gov)
Fatalities and incidents Charts showing number of mining disasters and associated fatalities per year. (cdc.gov)

A total of 85 state safety instructors, inspectors, supervisors, mine-rescue coordinators and administrators visited some 500 operations, including surface mines and preparation plants. (manufacturing.net)
The governor asked for prayers for the safety of the workers and the rescue teams. (kron4.com)
Jon finds uplifting moments in the rescue of mine workers. (cc.com)
Mines Rescue is transforming workplace safety through innovative virtual reality (VR) training. (aprs.com.au)

The Salt Lake Tribune) Heap leach pads at the Lisbon Valley Mining Company's copper mine facility in eastern San Juan County in Oct. 2019. (sltrib.com)
On August 28, 2019, the Union Cabinet approved 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in coal mining. (cgpi.org)

Lisbon Valley Mining Company (LVMC), which operates Utah's second largest copper mine 35 miles southeast of Moab, shut down abruptly last week. (sltrib.com)
But, he added, the workers were "exhausted after several days of little or no sleep and are devastated by the abrupt steps that the Company has required over the past several days. (sltrib.com)
According to documents filed to DOGM's website , the mining company has a $6.1 million bond held with the surety company Sompo International as is required under state law to ensure funds are available for reclamation if a mining company defaults on its permit. (sltrib.com)
In 1874, Neston Colliery Company was formed, giving the company the rights to mine the Little Neston Colliery. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
The coal mining operation which began in 1875 was initially owned by the Neston Colliery Company, but it later changed its name to Wirral Colliery Company. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
Thereafter, the company, through a subsidiary, attempted to open a new mine nearby with members of a rival union. (chanrobles.com)
Last October the Calderón government dispatched federal police and military units to occupy the government-owned Light and Power Company's facilities and to expel workers from them, then liquidated the company and fired the workers, offering them individual severance settlements. (labornotes.org)
Now the Mexican Electrical Commission, which absorbed the former Light and Power Company facilities, has begun to rehire only those workers who had accepted their severance-and only as employees of subcontractors. (labornotes.org)
The company extracts limestone for the production of lime and also does quarry stone mining for the production of construction aggregate. (nehandaradio.com)
The company blamed the 2009 strike and absenteeism among unionized workers as partially responsible for the supposed lack of profits. (miningwatch.ca)
Shortly after the June 2010 strike began, the company fired the 397 unionized workers, but the strikers established guards at the mine to protect equipment and to prevent contract workers from entering. (miningwatch.ca)
The company paid 100% percent of salaries for the time on strike as well as 90 days extra pay, and then rehired the remaining workers. (miningwatch.ca)
The El Cubo Mining Company, owned by the local Villagómez family, provided loans, profit sharing and in-kind contributions such as reforestation and construction materials for schools and churches. (miningwatch.ca)
The company, led by Harare lawyer Mr Tawanda Nyambirai, says it acquired rights to the real estate when it bought the mine, implying that the former Metallon Corporation employees have to vacate the houses. (nehandaradio.com)
Arcturus Mine had over 700 workers whose families reside in three compounds previously owned by their company. (nehandaradio.com)
However, since the company is under new management, the ex-Arcturus Mine workers lost their legal right to stay at the compounds, particularly after their sacking by Metallon following a strike blamed for the mine's closure. (nehandaradio.com)
In this regard, the company has invested over $10,7 million in the acquisition of Arcturus Mine. (nehandaradio.com)
The NUM is also calling upon the department of mineral resources to investigate the incident and play its oversight role to ensure that the mining company complies with mining health and safety regulations. (workers-iran.org)
Employees at the mining equipment company say the owner, Dale McNamara, froze their pay back in 2021 promising it would be lifted after a big merger went through. (newfm.com.au)
United Mine Workers has said union members gave up money to bring the company out of the Walter Energy bankruptcy six years ago, and workers have sought improved health benefits. (fox4kc.com)
The company said the strike cost it $6.7 million for the quarter because of security and other expenses, and having the mines idle cost $3 million. (fox4kc.com)
Over five lakh workers of Coal India Ltd (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd. (SCCL) will go on a one day strike on August 18. (cgpi.org)
Jaekel argued that boycotting countries like the DRC won't help their situation since Congolese workers are working on individual basis and are not employed by a particular company. (lu.se)

Unable to beat the union, the mine owner Grupo Mexico is now trying to buy the workers with a severance package worth approximately 800,000 pesos or about $80,000 to each miner. (labornotes.org)

The mine currently has 181 full-time employees. (cpr.org)
Production at Chinese firm, Ming Chang Sino-Africa Mining Investments' lime factory in Bubi District, Matabeleland North came to a halt last week after an acrimonious row between management and its employees over poor working conditions and low remuneration. (nehandaradio.com)
We received a call from Bubi Rural District Council that employees at the mine had staged a two-day sit in at the company's premises in protest against poor remuneration and inhuman working conditions as well as lack of protective clothing wear. (nehandaradio.com)
TN Securities (Pvt) Limited, which acquired Arcturus Mine from Metallon Corporation, says the former employees still residing at the mine's premises are doing so illegally. (nehandaradio.com)
The people being evicted are not employees of TN Gold-Arcturus Mine (Private) Limited. (nehandaradio.com)

Active mining operations A chart showing the number of active mines per year by sector. (cdc.gov)
Active mining operations per county A choropleth map showing the number of active mining operations per county. (cdc.gov)
Active mining operations by location A dot map showing the approximate location of active mining operations by sector. (cdc.gov)
The company's fatigue services project manager, Todd Dawson has spent the past 25 years focusing solely on fatigue management and shift work optimisation at different operations, including mining, transportation and oil/gas industries. (mining-technology.com)
Mining companies are looking to improve the productivity, safety, and efficiency of mine operations with the help of readily accessible digital technologies. (wipro.com)
Many companies initiating connected worker programs have a range of initiatives with a strong focus on mobility for operations staff. (wipro.com)
Additionally, the meeting heard that mining companies must include environmental protection in their operations. (industriall-union.org)
The city of Guanajuato, where El Cubo is located, differs from some other mining districts in Mexico where mining companies face substantial resistance to their presence and operations. (miningwatch.ca)
Guanajuato was founded on mining, and the city's mining operations have lived through Spanish, English, US and now Canadian foreign corporate ownership, as well as periods of national ownership in the late 19th and again in the late 20th centuries. (miningwatch.ca)
Both the union and Warrior Met have blamed each other for the prolonged strike, which centers on the company's mining operations southwest of Birmingham. (fox4kc.com)

It's unacceptable for mining companies to be negligent on health and safety issues especially when workers continue to die from avoidable mine accidents. (workers-iran.org)

Firstly it says that there are bonded labor type working conditions in these mines and quarries ( or the attached crushers). (countercurrents.org)
Fourthly mining is controlled by local elites who have followed harmful practices and damaged sustainability of mines and quarries. (countercurrents.org)

Also, their many workplaces in mines and mills scattered throughout Mexico make it much more difficult to attempt to crush the union in a single blow, as happened with the Mexican Electrical Workers union in October, where most facilities were concentrated in the Valley of Mexico. (labornotes.org)

Inspired by the IRSST-funded study titled Conditions for a safe and competent integration of new workers into the mining sector , researchers developed two tools specifically to help mining companies reflect on the new worker integration process. (irsst.qc.ca)
Thanks to these two tools - a Self-Diagnostic Tool and an Example of a Worker Integration Process - mining companies will be able to identify their current practices and conditions that facilitate new worker integration, as well as to identify action priorities to ensure continuous improvement. (irsst.qc.ca)
In February, Tomblin asked the state's coal companies to take a time-out for safety talks after four mine workers died in two weeks. (manufacturing.net)
Workers and other stakeholders shares the view that the poor performances of the group of companies are due to financial distress, gross undercapitalisation and lack of proper management. (newzimbabwe.com)
However, it is also driven from within, by the increasing need for mining companies to compete with new sectors to attract top talent, the adaptation of the new technologies, and as a result, the need to invest more in training and upskilling the current workforce, and ever-existing operational pressures to reduce costs and increase productivity while at the same time maintain a safe and healthy working environment. (wikistrat.com)
It is difficult to find people in the city who would identify as "anti-mining" or who wish for mining companies to pick up and leave. (miningwatch.ca)
For mining companies and other high-risk industries, the need to train workers effectively in a safe and controlled environment is critical. (aprs.com.au)
Private industrial companies have so far only been allowed to own and operate captive coal mines, that is, to mine coal for use in their own industry. (cgpi.org)
Opening up coal mining to private commercial mining means that private companies can mine and sell coal to anyone they please. (cgpi.org)
State ownership and control of coal mines was established 38 years ago, after persistent struggle of coal workers against their super-exploitation by private capitalist companies. (cgpi.org)
Opening up coal mining once again to private companies threatens to deprive them of these hard won rights. (cgpi.org)
Capitalist companies will run the mines with the aim of securing maximum profits. (cgpi.org)
We have had the impression that some other TV companies we have had contact with wanted to produce mining as something extremely dangerous and play up the safety aspects of the profession. (icepeople.net)

Inspectors from the state agency were sent to the mine site on Monday, and a DOGM spokesperson said the inspectors outlined the steps needed for environmental protections. (sltrib.com)
Marie Mora, an American economist, thanked Sarah Jacobson, an environmental economist for having heard of her talk on the pandemic and its impact on Latinx workers with Scott Horsley, an economics reporter for the non-profit media organisation, National Public Radio (NPR). (mining-technology.com)

Whether a forest fire in France, a tornado in the American Midwest, or a mining disaster in Russia, the emergency imposes certain exigencies upon the responders. (cdc.gov)

Data source: Mine Safety and Health Administration ( MSHA ). (cdc.gov)
The ECWHSP, an extension of the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) , was developed in collaboration with the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to reduce potential barriers to participation in the screening program and investigate the trends of coal workers' pneumoconiosis, also referred to as "black lung. (cdc.gov)

At the request of the Association paritaire pour la santé et la sécurité du travail du secteur minier (APSM, a joint association for occupational health and safety in the mining industry), researchers studied the conditions facilitating the safe integration of workers in the mining industry . (irsst.qc.ca)
The IRSST conducts and funds research activities aimed at eliminating risks to worker health and safety and at promoting worker rehabilitation. (irsst.qc.ca)
As part of an ongoing series produced in association with Carroll Technologies examining health and safety best practice and innovation at mining and industrial sites, Todd Dawson, project manager of fatigue services at Caterpillar Inc, discusses how to mitigate fatigue-related accidents and injuries. (mining-technology.com)
The first one is improving operational efficiency, and the second one relates to worker health and safety. (wipro.com)
According to the Mines Health and Safety Act the employer must ensure that the mine provide "conditions for safe operation and a healthy working environment" and this applies to the mine's construction activities and equipment as well. (workers-iran.org)
With the increasing deaths and injuries, the Mining Health and Safety Council's goal of achieving "zero harm" is becoming elusive. (workers-iran.org)
Following the enactment of the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969, there was a decline in coal worker pneumoconiosis in the United States. (msdmanuals.com)
He said workers at mining sites in the DRC and Myanmar face huge health and safety challenges since there is a lack of simple safety equipment, such as helmets. (lu.se)

The union was established in 1963, when the Union of Metal Workers merged with the Union of Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Workers, the Union of Printing Workers, the Union of Textile and Leather Workers, and the Union of Wood Industry Workers. (wikipedia.org)
In 1974, the union was split into the Metal Production and Manufacturing Workers' Union, the Chemistry and Non-Metallic Industry Workers' Union, the Textile, Leather and Footwear Workers' Union, the Forestry and Wood Industry Workers' Union and the Printing, Newspaper, Publishing and Information Workers' Union. (wikipedia.org)
By virtue of its activities, the Québec mining industry faces its own particular challenges when it comes to the safe integration of new workers. (irsst.qc.ca)
Despite revolutionising the industry and hundreds of local workers risking their lives each day, Neston Collieries in Wirral is unknown to some. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
The following section covers two key aspects of adopting digitally connected workers in the mining industry. (wipro.com)
The mining industry is under pressure to change at a more rapid rate than ever before. (wikistrat.com)
To explore how these external and internal drivers will combine and shape the future of work and the workers in the mining industry, Wikistrat and idoba have partnered to run an online simulation with the aim of exploring scenarios for the future of work in the mining industry, with the goal of understanding what the future holds for both the industry and its workers. (wikistrat.com)
In total, 28 participants from more than 13 countries took part in the simulation, with more than 15 of them linked to the mining industry. (wikistrat.com)
These data may contribute with strategies to enhance smoking cessation and preventive respiratory disease programs within the mining industry in order to prevent pulmonary injuries. (bmj.com)
On 20 February 2018, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) permitted private firms to enter the commercial coal mining industry in India. (cgpi.org)

With continuing declines in the price of coal, Longmay had to shut down eight coking mines in northeast China earlier this year . (cleantechnica.com)
On 15 July, when the mine was supposed to be on shut down, management sent 200 workers underground to increase production. (workers-iran.org)
Those working at Mine 7 - a relatively small group of a few dozen people, compared to the hundreds that worked larger Norwegian-owned mines in Svalbard before they were permanently shut down recently - have been the subject of numerous media articles and short documentary films during the past few years. (icepeople.net)

Lafferty said the men were working to demolish part of the abandoned mine site on Wolf Creek when the collapse occurred. (kron4.com)
Steve Carell reports from the site of a mine collapse, where the workers make him feel like a little girl in comparison. (cc.com)

The Union of Industrial and Mining Workers (Serbo-Croatian: Sindikat radnika industrije i rudarstva) was a trade union representing workers in various industries in Yugoslavia. (wikipedia.org)
The union will call on workers at more plants to strike unless significant progress is made. (manufacturing.net)
On August 15 and 16, 1960, armed members of petitioner's local forcibly prevented the opening of the mine, threatened respondent, and assaulted an organizer for the rival union. (chanrobles.com)
Respondent lost his job as superintendent, never performed his haulage contract, and allegedly lost other trucking contracts and mine leases because of a concerted union plan against him. (chanrobles.com)
The union has refused the employers' offer to end the strike through this process of serial severance of the workers. (labornotes.org)
He pointed to the massive participation at the union meeting and at the López Obrador rally as demonstration of the workers' rejection of the company's severance offer. (labornotes.org)
Grupo Mexico's strategy at Cananea borrows a page from the Calderón government's handling of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union. (labornotes.org)
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union continues to fight for its members' jobs, though now, four months later, chances of winning them back appear remote. (labornotes.org)
The union noted that one of RioZim's subsidiary Dalny Mine was closed. (newzimbabwe.com)
Following conversations with the workers, who remain at the entrance of the mine near the town of Real de Limón, the representative for the National Executive Committee of the Mining Union, Indalecio Pérez Morones, said that the arrival of 100 officers of the Mexican armed forces to the mine spurred the protesters' anger. (mining.com)
Workers went on a strike to demand better pay and the right to join the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of the Mexican Republic, known as Los Mineros. (mining.com)
The problem is that Torex Gold's subsidiary in the country signed an agreement with a different union without the input or knowledge of affected workers. (mining.com)
For these reasons, the union wants the management "to tell the truth" on the cause of the fire, and why workers were exposed to such dangerous working conditions. (workers-iran.org)
The union is striking at Warrior Met's No. 4 and No. 7 mines, a preparation plant and a central shop, all in Tuscaloosa County. (fox4kc.com)

The objective of this study is to find the most prevalent pulmonary changes evaluated in asbesto's exposed workers and verify if there is any risk factor associated. (bmj.com)
Simple coal worker pneumoconiosis is characterized by upper lobe predominance of small rounded nodular opacities and typically is not associated with symptoms or pulmonary dysfunction. (msdmanuals.com)

IndustriALL Global Union's affiliates represent over 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors. (industriall-union.org)

He allegedly tried to sack some of the most vocal workers, leading to an argument during which Zhang allegedly shot one of them in both thighs. (scmp.com)

The problem of ill-treatment of workers is systematic and widespread and what that (shooting) incident did was to expose the rampant abuse of workers," Shamiso Mutisi, deputy director at ZELA, said. (scmp.com)

Cancer and mortality in coal mine workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (bvsalud.org)
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate cancer and mortality in coal mine workers We searched in Ovid Medline , PubMed , Embase and Web of Science databases using keywords and text words related to coal mines, cancer and mortality and identified 36 full-text articles using predefined inclusion criteria. (bvsalud.org)

Several kol tribal workers also toil in mining work. (countercurrents.org)
Workers are employed to work and after working they expect to get paid their salaries in order to bring food to their families, pay school fees, medical bills for them and extended families, buy clothes and enjoy life of someone employed. (newzimbabwe.com)
Chinhema said RioZim was required by law to ensure workers live the life commensurate to the work they do. (newzimbabwe.com)
From that day, the workers have launched a program of agitations in the form of work to rule, rallies, gate meetings and pit meetings, culminating in the August 18 strike. (cgpi.org)
A mine is a demanding environment for the equipment and those who work there. (icepeople.net)

We are constantly subjected to insults and sometimes assault by some management staff, as if this is not enough we are receiving a paltry $7,50 per hour per shift of nine hours, which is way below the prescribed lawfully rates," said one of the workers on condition of anonymity in fear of victimisation. (nehandaradio.com)
Should the man in charge of each shift have a map of the mine? (macdonaldmines.com)
Lack of Sleep Disrupts Body Clock, Hormones Reverse schedules can disrupt the body's circadian rhythm, particularly in night-shift workers. (medscape.com)
Dr Peter Liu shares insight into new research on shift workers, hypogonadism, and hormones. (medscape.com)

Before Friday, federal Mine Safety and Health Administration records show that 14 workers had died at U.S. coal mines so far this year, and five of them were in West Virginia. (manufacturing.net)
The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration says Hill died a day after she was injured in the Feb. 14 accident at Nevada Gold Mines' Cortez Hill operation southwest of Carlin. (8newsnow.com)

When the coal mine first opened in 1759 it was known as Ness Colliery, and it used impressive underground canals to mine coal under the Dee Estuary. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
AP) - Federal safety officials say a 34-year-old worker died in an accident at a northern Nevada gold mine last month when the truck she was driving plunged about 60 feet to the floor of the underground mine. (8newsnow.com)
As they did in the past, they will resort to surface (open cast) mining of coal instead of underground mining, in order to cut down their costs. (cgpi.org)
Open cast mining of coal is not in the long-term interests of the country because once the coal close to the surface is removed, it will be very difficult to extract the coal that is left underground. (cgpi.org)

These are among the legitimate fears of the lakhs of mine workers of Coal India. (cgpi.org)
He meant that now capitalists, Indian and foreign, are free to exploit the coal resources of India, and super-exploit the coal workers, for fulfilling their insatiable greed for maximum profits. (cgpi.org)
Workers of Coal India are questioning why this highly profitable and valuable public property should be sold, bit by bit, to profit-hungry capitalists. (cgpi.org)

The news has been reported in several regional news outlets, claiming that Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group Co Ltd. would be effecting the layoffs over the next three months. (cleantechnica.com)
More coal jobs are being cut in Colorado's North Fork Valley with nearly 100 layoffs planned at a mine near Paonia. (cpr.org)

We as well others commuting on this road were asked to stop as dynamite blast to facilitate mining was about to take place and stone pieces could reach here at a furious place even though the road was some distance away. (countercurrents.org)

This is outrageous and effectively negates workers' right to strike. (fox4kc.com)
All the unions of coal workers actively participated to make that strike a success. (cgpi.org)

Caterpillar has developed fatigue management technologies for its mine site machinery, how can technology help reduce the associated risks? (mining-technology.com)
On the way back we passed a mining site and were asked to stop. (countercurrents.org)
The coal mine operated until 1855 and made history during this time, as it was the first large industrial site in West Cheshire and had the first steam engine in the region. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
The mine was situated at the bottom of today's Marshlands Road in Little Neston, the site of the former Little Neston Colliery. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
PKK workers have been rallying at Tomago this morning before they walk off site. (newfm.com.au)

The order characterized conditions at the mine as "vulnerable" and said they "may quickly deteriorate," adding, "DOGM understands that failure of the pumps at the leach pad and ponds would result in a release of sulfuric acid into the environment after only 37 hours. (sltrib.com)
Thirdly child labor exists in mines and child workers also toil in unsafe conditions. (countercurrents.org)
Although this report does not comment specifically on the problems on women workers, it expresses concern about the general safety and security conditions of women. (countercurrents.org)
But that does not mean that workers, their families and other citizens don't want to be treated and paid fairly and to have safe working conditions, healthy communities and opportunities for their families. (miningwatch.ca)
In nearly two decades of continuous activism, we have played an impactful role in securing international support for Iranian workers' struggles against the Islamic Republic of Iran, employers, and the inhumane conditions the capitalist order has imposed on working-class lives in Iran. (workers-iran.org)

Merseyside had its fair share of coal mines back in the day, but there's one that proudly stood for over 160 years that's since been forgotten by many. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
A second mine, Little Neston Colliery, operated yards from Ness Colliery for around 30 years, bringing unwanted competition. (liverpoolecho.co.uk)
However, two years down the line workers find themselves in an unenviable position. (newzimbabwe.com)
Workers for two (2) years were made to understand that the Biox plant is going to be a game changer for everyone, months down after the commissioning of the Biox plant, things have gone from bad to worse. (newzimbabwe.com)
She had worked at the mine for more than 10 years. (8newsnow.com)
Results All workers were male, mean age of 64 years-old. (bmj.com)

Coal mine workers are exposed to a number of workplace hazards which may increase the risk of cancer and mortality . (bvsalud.org)

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