AFL-CIO: Workers at Mines Need Modernized Protections From Deadly Silica Exposure
July 01, 2023
July 01, 2023
WASHINGTON, July 1 (TNStalk) -- The AFL-CIO issued the following statement on June 30, 2023:
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Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the proposed rule to protect mineworkers from silica exposure:
For far too long, coal miners, metal and nonmetal miners, and other workers on mining sites have fallen ill and have died from debilitating silicosis as a result of being exposed to dangerous levels of respirable silica. These exposure levels have rise . . .
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Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the proposed rule to protect mineworkers from silica exposure:
For far too long, coal miners, metal and nonmetal miners, and other workers on mining sites have fallen ill and have died from debilitating silicosis as a result of being exposed to dangerous levels of respirable silica. These exposure levels have rise . . .