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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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... The present report summarizes the Committee's additional analyses of the relationship between mine size and fatality rates. As in our earlier report, we focus primarily on information collected from MSHA accident/injury and employment/production reports.
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... Table 2 gives a breakdown of mines by state and size. The table includes only those seven states with at least 20 million hours of underground coal mine employment during 1978-80.
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