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 ...

A mixture of respirable crystalline silica and coal mine dust can cause black lung. Around one in five tenured miners in Central Appalachia has black lung disease, the AP reported. They said the ...

A Biden administration rule lowered the amount of toxic dust workers in mines and quarries can be exposed to, but a lawsuit ...

Was this done without the consent of miners or their bereaved families? Black lung disease, formally known as pneumoconiosis, is a horrible condition caused by inhaling coal dust. "It was really ...

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 ...

which may play a role in the pathogenesis of lung diseases among coal miners[5]. This highlights the importance of understanding the sources and characteristics of coal dust to better assess ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal ... long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions were even worse. Poor food rations ...

Mining companies have agreed a 5bn rand ($400m, £285m) compensation deal for tens of thousands of South African miners who contracted deadly lung diseases while working underground. The miners ...

Luzerne County honors its past with Anthracite Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the profound impact of anthracite coal mining on the region’s history, culture and people. For decades, coal was the ...