Opinion ID: 2709596
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Dusty Conditions

Text: Bailey “was exposed to coal dust coming up to him on coal cars, which were within 2-3 feet of him and the fan on which ‘kept blowing it right back in [his] face.’ ” A-5 (quoting Tr. 18). And he described the mine’s dustcontrol efforts “as consisting of a single water truck . . . [that] was ‘pretty well insufficient to take care of any dust.’ ” A-5 (quoting Tr. 20). Based on this and other testimony, the ALJ concluded that Bailey’s working “conditions were substantially similar to conditions in an underground mine.” This finding is in line with case law concerning outdoor but excessively dusty coal environments. See, e.g., Blakley v. Amax Coal Co., 54 F.3d 1313, 1319 (7th Cir. 1995).