Doctors Confirm Black Lung In Victims Of Mine Blast
Filed by KOSU News in US News.
May 17, 2013
The tragic deaths of 29 coal miners in a massive explosion in 2010 have provided new evidence of a resurgence of the disease known as black lung.
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Cohen says the relatively young ages of some of the miners and limited tenure underground ?means that there were probably some intense exposures and excessive exposures over a short period of time. That raises some concerns.?
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Black lung has killed 70,000 coal miners since 1970. NPR, the Center for Public Integrity and The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette documented widespread industry cheating in the coal-dust control system and weak federal regulation in a series of stories last year. [Copyright 2013 NPR]
