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Survey of hearing loss in the coal mining industry : National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Jun 1976, 141 pp; abstr in Government Reports Announcements (Report No PB-271 811/2GA; DHEW/PUB/NIOSH-76-172)


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
131 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6870

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✦ Synopsis


The report contains results of a study of hearing loss in the underground coal mining industry. Hearing tests are given to 1500 miners by NIOSH at 11 randomly selected coal mines in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Noise surveys are performed at the same mines by personnel of the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration (previously of the US Bureau of Mines). Hearing data are