Citation

Atalay F. Turk. Thorac J. 2015; 16(Suppl 1): S5-S8.

Affiliation

Department of Chest Diseases, Bülent Ecevit University Faculty of Medicine, Zonguldak, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Aves)

DOI

10.5152/ttd.2015.002

PMID

29404107

PMCID

PMC5783104

Abstract

Three per thousand of the world's coal reserves and 2% of lignite reserves exist in Turkey. Coal mining is the highest ranking industry for accidents and deaths per capita. For this reason, continuous monitoring and more attention should be gıven to the mining industry. In this review, the basic statistical data related to Turkey's mining and mining disasters are summarized.

Language: en

Keywords

Coal; coal miner; mining accident