Pneumoconiosis in charcoal workers: a case report

Abstract

Objective: To describe the occurrence of pneumoconiosis in a charcoal worker and the damages to his health and quality of life. Method: It is a study type a case report during practical activities of the Postgraduate Course in Engineering and Work Safety Faculdades Integradas Pitágoras de Montes Claros in the year 2015. An interview was made with the worker of a charcoal from the interior of the Minas Gerais state. Experience: The worker was 72 years old, retired, a former smoker, worked for 7 years in coal mines in the north of Minas Gerais, in the 1990s cutting wood, transporting the wood to the kilns, furnishing the kilns, lighting and "erasing" the furnaces and removing coal in poor conditions according to patient information. Conclusion: It is concluded that, through monitoring and prevention control, risk elimination can be achieved through training and awareness-raising strategies to ensure the quality of life of workers and thus prevent diseases such as PTC, since the best measure for the control is the prevention of exposure.