In Central Appalachia, an estimated one in five tenured coal miners has black lung disease. The condition reduces life expectancy by an average of 12 years and makes it a “struggle to get ...

according to the American Lung Association. One National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health study found modern coal miners, particularly those in Central Appalachia, are more likely than ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal ... For those who survived those hazards, long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions ...

Pneumoconiosis is a lung disease that affects miners, builders ... such as silica, coal dust, or asbestos. When the specks of dust build up in your lungs, the immune system-- your body's defense ...

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...

or the long term health threats like black lung. As Curtis Burton, who spent the last 17 years working in or for coal mines in Pennsylvania, told Business Insider, coal mining is a hard job ...

Although he survived the physical dangers of mining, he succumbed to black lung disease — a cruel reminder of the long-term risks of coal mining. His struggle and eventual death from this ...