Are health regulations enough? Lung disease on the rise in mine workers

(Society for Risk Analysis) While on-the-job fatalities due to injuries and accidents have steadily decreased in nearly every industry in the US, the burden of debilitating lung disease in the coal mining industry has sharply increased within the last decade. A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal examines whether compliance with health regulations at mines across the country was sufficient to decrease instances of lung disease.

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