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A study was conducted on mortality among coal miners in New South Wales (NSW), Australia between 1973 and 1992. Altogether, 491 of the 23,630 subjects were found to have died during the study period. Standardized mortality ratios for individual causes of death, with the exceptions of motor vehicle and other accidents, and respiratory disease, were significantly less than one. The incidence of mortality due to nonmotor vehicle accidents was increased in the cohort compared with the NSW population; the increase was attributed to miners who had begun their careers in underground mines. Those who began mining at open cut mines had a substantially lower mortality rate compared with the general NSW population. The authors conclude that accidents continue to be a problem in underground coal mining.
Medical Journal of Australia, 163(1):19-21, 1995. (17 references)
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