US government enacts new safety rules to reduce silica dust exposure for 250,000 miners.

The US government has announced new safety rules to protect miners from silica dust exposure, which has been linked to severe black lung disease. The rules, which have been 50 years in the making, will limit the concentrations of airborne silica in mines and affect over 250,000 miners involved in the extraction of coal, metals, and minerals. The new rules will also impose the same silica exposure limits that already apply to other workers in the US.

April 16, 2024
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