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Respirable Coal Mine Dust Rule in Phase II – The Rule is Achieving Goal of Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Dust
On February 1, 2016, the second phase of MSHA's landmark respirable coal mine dust rule went into effect. Phase II adds increased safeguards for coal miners to further protect them from overexposure to unhealthy respirable coal mine dust that causes coal miners’ pneumoconiosis, or black lung.