Occupational Health Risks among Coal Workers A Case Study of Jharia Coal Mines in Dhanbad District of Jharkhand

Abstract

This study is an Endeavour to explain with the help of empirical evidences that occupational newlinehealth risks among coal workers of Jharia Coal Field (JCF) are substantially hampering the newlinehealth, income and livelihood conditions of workers. Occupational health risks can also distress newlinepublic health and wellbeing of people, costs to national economy and impacts on the newlineenvironment. Total cost of occupational health risks, diseases, accidents and injuries have been newlinecalculated nearly up to three percent of GDP in various countries (Rikhardsson 2004, Leigh et newlineal 1992). The public health challenges of coal mining are very diverse and dangerous. Coal newlineminers are killed, injured and sickened by their occupation (Wagner 2018). It has been newlineobserved by many researchers that community living near coal mining regions are facing newlinenumerous health problems. They have poorer health status when compared with residents of newlinenon coal mining areas. The problem gets more worst due to unavailability of proper health newlinefacility in mining areas. The mining regions are generally backward; least developed and have newlinehigh poverty rates. It has also high death rate due to various diseases caused by deteriorated newlineenvironment (Tabuchi 2017)