Does your job really matter? Job-specific cancer incidence among a cohort coal mine workers in Queensland, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Globally, coal production exposes millions of workers to coal mine dust. This study aimed to measure overall and site specific cancer incidence among coal mine workers (CMW) who performed different types of work.

Methods

A retrospective cohort of CMW in Queensland, Australia, was assembled using health assessment records from 1992. CMW were grouped by job type and then into Work Categories and linked to the Australian Cancer Database up to 2016. Standardized cancer incidence ratios (SIR) and relative cancer incidence ratios (aRIR) within the cohort, adjusted for age, era, and smoking status, were calculated for men and women with Poisson regression.

Results

There were 5,568 cancers diagnosed among 146,553 men and 396 in 19,927 women. The overall cancer risk wa

SUBMITTER: Glass DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12779655 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature