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 ...

Coal mines were dangerous for all workers ... For those who survived those hazards, long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions ...

it is most difficult to establish their relationship to the general increase of lung cancer. Coal consumption has not increased in the United States over a period of many years; therefore coal ...

As funding cuts continue to have an impact across the country, Anita Wolfe, who’s retired from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Morgantown location, sat down ...

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 ...

Even as they face the risk of mines collapsing, or catching on fire, 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 ...