Blast, drill, remove, or crush rock

Comments

High-risk jobs for metal and non-metal miners are stone polishers/cutters, ball mill operators, rotary drill operators, and crusher operators. Most jobs drilling, cutting, or breaking rock had average exposures >50 ug/m3 plus likely exposure to freshly fractured quartz. [Hyperlink]

Job Task Category

Mining or Quarrying

Reference Link

Exposed To

Minerals

Diseases

Diseases associated with this job task:

• Pneumoconioses, other
• Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive
• Silicosis, acute
• Silicosis, complicated
• Silicosis, simple

Jobs

Jobs associated with this job task:

• Continuous Mining Machine Operators
• Crushing, Grinding & Polishing Machine Setters, Operators
• Earth Drillers, Except Oil & Gas
• Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts & Blasters
• Mine Cutting & Channeling Machine Operators
• Mining Machine Operators, All Other
• Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
• Rock Splitters, Quarry
• Roof Bolters, Mining
• Structural Iron & Steel Workers

Industries

Industries associated with this job task:

• All Other Metal Ore Mining
• All Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining
• Anthracite Mining
• Bituminous Coal and Lignite Surface Mining
• Bituminous Coal Underground Mining
• Clay and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining
• Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
• CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS
• Construction Sand and Gravel Mining
• Copper Ore and Nickel Ore Mining
• Crushed and Broken Granite Mining and Quarrying
• Cut Stone and Stone Product Manufacturing
• Dimension Stone Mining and Quarrying
• Gold Ore Mining
• HEAVY AND CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION
• Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction
• Industrial Building Construction
• Industrial Sand Mining
• Iron Ore Mining
• Lead Ore and Zinc Ore Mining
• METAL ORE MINING
• NONMETALLIC MINERAL MINING AND QUARRYING
• Other Chemical and Fertilizer Mineral Mining
• Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
• Phosphate Rock Mining
• Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors
• Silver Ore Mining
• Site Preparation Contractors
• Uranium-Radium-Vanadium Ore Mining
• Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction