If It’s Silica… It’s Not Just Dust!

For over 30 years, the New Jersey Department of Health’s Silicosis Surveillance Project has tracked cases of the disabling lung disease silicosis. The following summarizes the results of surveillance activities in the New Jersey mining industry:

• Tracking Silicosis in the New Jersey Mining Industry – What Have We Learned?[pdf 283k]
  
  
• Occupations of Silicosis Cases, New Jersey Mineral Industries, 1979-2011[ppt 5.8 m] Presentation-ready slides depicting the occupations of silicosis cases by mining industry subsector along with age, type of employer, year identified, and year first exposed.
  
  
• Map of Active New Jersey Mining Operations as of 2010[pdf 254k]

Surveillance Statistics

• Silicosis Cases by Year Reported[pdf 104k]
• Distribution of Silicosis Cases by Decade Reported[pdf 63k]
• Distribution of Silicosis Cases by Age Group at Year Reported[pdf 63k]
• Distribution of Silicosis Cases by Race and Hispanic Ethnicity[pdf 47k]
• Distribution of Cases by Mineral Industry Sector[pdf 49k]
• Distribution of Cases by Mineral Industry Subsector[pdf 30k]
• Distribution of Silicosis Cases in Currently Active Mines by Commodity Mined[pdf 70k]
• Occupations of Silicosis Cases at Time of Greatest Exposure[pdf 116k]
• Distribution of Silicosis Cases and Mines by County[pdf 56k]