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

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 ...

Trendy quartz worktops have been linked to 18 UK cases of a lethal lung disease called artificial stone silicosis, which develops when those manufacturing the worktops breathe in toxic silica dust.

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 ...

compensation deal for tens of thousands of South African miners who contracted deadly lung diseases while working underground. The miners contracted silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by ...

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 ...

Pneumoconiosis, a chronic lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of certain dust types, is also referred to as lung ...

All of their husbands had died while working in the mines as they succumbed to silicosis, an incurable lung ... mining and quarry work is the only occupation and silicosis is a commonplace disease ...

President-elect Donald Trump is vowing support for the mining sector by fast-tracking environmental reviews, creating “clean coal” and ... and debilitating lung disease, including silicosis ...

I care for many workers who suffer from entirely preventable conditions such as silicosis and coal miners’ lung disease. The ban on engineered stone in Australia in July 2024 was welcome and ...