black lung disease
Example Sentences
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He still struggles with black lung disease, she said, and joint pain from time spent crawling underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
In Central Appalachia, an estimated one in five tenured coal miners has black lung disease.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Her father, who eventually died of black lung disease, worked in the Van Lear mines.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Stardom seemed unlikely for Lynn as she grew up in a coal-rich area of Kentucky known as Butcher Holler, where her miner father died of black lung disease at age 52.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2022
Many miners developed black lung disease after ten to fifteen years of working underground.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
