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
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
Coal miners have urged the senator to support the social spending bill, which would extend an increased excise tax that funds benefits for miners suffering from black lung disease.
From Washington Post • May 18, 2022
The levy finances a trust fund that pays about 30,000 miners coping with black lung disease and their beneficiaries a little under $700 a month.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 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
