NIOSH researchers found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from the incurable and fatal lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. The last time the rate of disease was that high for miners with the same work history was 1978.
Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
A new report found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from black lung at the highest rates in nearly 50 years.
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