Dust Suppression Experts
Alongside excess noise and vibration, perhaps the chief long-term threat to worker safety at a mine site is suspended particulate matter, or dust, generated by the daily operations of mining. At its most extreme, long-term exposure to coal dust can produce coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, or ‘black lung’, a respiratory condition in which a worker’s lung degrade and turn black from coal dust exposure. Though black lung is perhaps the most extreme example of the hazardous effects of dust exposure, respiratory ailments such as asthma and bronchitis brought on by long-term exposure can also have debilitating effects of a worker’s health and productivity. Only preventative dust monitoring and suppression methods can hope to block the emergence of these types of corrosive...