Regulations last checked for updates: Oct 19, 2024

Title 42 - Public Health last revised: Oct 15, 2024
§ 37.40 - General provisions.

(a) The chest radiographic examination must be given at a convenient time and place.

(b) The chest radiographic examination consists of the chest radiograph, a completed Chest Radiograph Classification Form (CDC/NIOSH 2.8), and a completed Miner Identification Document (CDC/NIOSH 2.9).

(c) A radiographic examination must be made in a facility approved in accordance with § 37.43 or § 37.44. Chest radiographs of miners under this section must be performed:

(1) By or under the supervision of a physician who makes chest radiographs in the normal course of practice and who has demonstrated ability to make chest radiographs of a quality to best ascertain the presence of pneumoconiosis; or

(2) By a radiologic technologist as defined in § 37.2.

[81 FR 73282, Oct. 24, 2016]
authority: Sec. 203, 83 Stat. 763; 30 U.S.C. 843,unless
source: 43 FR 33715, Aug. 1, 1978, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 42 CFR 37.40