ENVIRONMENT

Taking on black lung

The benefits of the final dust rule ventilation changes for underground coal mines implemented by the US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) are already paying off, with dramatically reduced levels of black lung disease being reported

Lou Caruana
The shrivelled and hardened lung of a black lung victim, 1972. Photo: LeRoy Woodson

The shrivelled and hardened lung of a black lung victim, 1972. Photo: LeRoy Woodson

Its findings could contain a way forward for coal miners in other countries as well. MSHA announced that about 99% of the respirable coal mine dust samples collected from April 1 through June 30, 2016,...

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