NIOSH Respiratory Diseases Research Program

3.1d) RDRP Publications of Special Note Relating to Respiratory Diseases Induced by Coal Mine Dust

 3.1c) Improve Measurement and Controls to Reduce Coal Mine Dust Exposure

3.2 Silica-Induced Respiratory Diseases 

1. Attfield MD, Morring K [1992]. An investigation into the relationship between coal workers' pneumoconiosis and dust exposure in U.S. coal miners. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 53:486-492. (A3-6) (ISI Web of Science: cited 31 times as of 7/20/06)
2. Attfield MD, Morring K [1992]. The derivation of estimated dust exposures for U.S. coal miners working before 1970. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 53:248-255. (A3-7) (ISI Web of Science: cited 28 times as of 7/20/06)
3. Vallyathan V, Shi X [1997]. The role of oxygen free radicals in occupational and environmental lung diseases. Environ Health Perspect 1:165-177. (A3-9) (ISI Web of Science: cited 53 times as of 7/20/06)
4. Lapp NL, Castranova V [1993]. How silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis develop - A cellular assessment. Occup Med State Art Rev 8:35-56. (A3-10) (ISI Web of Science: cited 38 times as of 7/20/06)
5. Wallace WE, Harrison J, Keane MJ, Bolsaitis P, Epplesheimer D, Poston J, Page SJ [1990]. Clay occlusion of respirable quartz particles detected by low voltage scanning electron microscopy. Ann Occup Hyg 34:195-204. (A3-11) (ISI Web of Science: cited 11 times as of 7/20/06)
6. Antao VC, Petsonk EL, Sokolow LZ, Wolfe AL, Pinheiro GA, Hale JM, Attfield MD [2005]. Rapidly progressive coal workers' pneumoconiosis in the U.S.: Geographic clustering and other factors. Occup Environ Med 62:670-674. (A3-15)
7. Antao VC, Petsonk EL, Attfield MD [2006]. Advanced cases of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, Lee and Wise counties, Virginia. MMWR 55:909-913. (A3-16)
8. Reger RB, Morgan WKC [1970]. On the factors influencing consistency in the radiologic diagnosis of pneumoconiosis. Am Rev Respir Dis 102:905-915. (A3-17) (ISI Web of Science: cited 49 times as of 7/20/06)
9. Kissell FN, Sacks HK [2002]. Inaccuracy of area sampling for measuring the dust exposure of mining machine operators in coal mines. Mining Engineering 54:33-39 (A3-20).