Federal Black Lung Law and insurance in a nutshell. [Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969]

Journal Article · · Forum (Chicago); (United States)

OSTI ID:7111894

de Carlo, D T; Vieweg, W F

With the passage of The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (FCMHSA) Congress recognized an urgent need to provide more effective means and measures for improving the working conditions and practices in the Nation's coal mines in order to prevent death and serious physical harm, and in order to prevent occupational diseases originating in such mines. Initial attention was directed toward providing safer working conditions within the coal mines. The Act prescribed certain interim health and safety standards with direction to the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate permanent standards designed to provide a safer and healthier workplace for the coal miner. Congress further determined that there were a significant number of coal miners who are totally disabled due to coal-workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung), arising out of coal mine employment and that there are additional persons who are survivors of coal miners whose deaths were due to this disease. Programs for financial compensation are reviewed.

• Research Organization: National Council on Compensation Insurance, Washington, DC
• OSTI ID: 7111894
• Journal Information: Forum (Chicago); (United States), Journal Name: Forum (Chicago); (United States) Vol. 11:3; ISSN FRUMC
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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