Finally! Tough new safety rules on silica dust are out to protect miners’ lungs

The safety rules being announced and finalized today are projected to save about 10 times more miners from catastrophic lung disease than the rules that were first proposed. These x-rays show black lung disease.

Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators say stricter new rules to limit miners’ exposure to silica dust are expected to finally go on the books on Tuesday.

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