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say grace before Sunday dinner.

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An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners.

Regulators Could Have Stopped It

NPR

December 18, 2018    5:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/
675253856/an-epidemic-is-killing-thousands-of-coal-miners-regulators-could-have-stopped-it

deadly mining disease

black lung disease / coal worker's pneumoconiosis        USA

https://www.npr.org/series/156453033/
black-lung-returns-to-coal-country

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/07/
1210051981/coal-miners-black-lung-silica-dust-rule

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/
1193439568/coal-miners-say-new-limits-on-rock-dust-could-save-some-lives

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/
1193439568/coal-miners-say-new-limits-on-rock-dust-could-save-some-lives

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/04/
1185524447/coal-miners-would-be-protected-from-black-lung-disease-
under-proposed-silica-rul

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/
1092690291/researchers-say-t
heyve-linked-silica-dust-directly-to-severe-black-lung-disease

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/
686000458/i-figured-it-was-going-to-be-a-horrible-death-and-it-probably-will-be

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/
685821214/before-black-lung-the-hawks-nest-tunnel-disaster-killed-hundreds

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/
675253856/an-epidemic-is-killing-thousands-of-coal-miners-
regulators-could-have-stopped-it

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/
678045923/fatal-disease-outbreak-among-miners-spurs-
house-hearings-on-coal-mine-dust

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/04/
616136915/coal-miners-fund-set-for-deep-cuts-
as-black-lung-epidemic-grows

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/22/
613400710/new-studies-confirm-a-surge-in-coal-miners-disease

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/06/
583456129/black-lung-study-
biggest-cluster-ever-of-fatal-coal-miners-disease

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/
505577680/advanced-black-lung-cases-surge-in-appalachia

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/
health/research/dr-donald-l-rasmussen-crusader-
for-coal-miners-health-dies-at-87.html

coal mines > silica dust        USA

In coal mines,

silica dust gets into the air

when machines cut into rock layers

that surround coal deposits.

As the coal deposits

have been mined out over decades,

more rock is cut

and more silica dust gets into the air.

Those tiny particles can lodge

in the lungs permanently

and cause a severe form of black lung disease.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/
1193439568/coal-miners-say-new-limits-on-rock-dust-could-save-some-lives

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/
1193439568/coal-miners-say-new-limits-on-rock-dust-could-save-some-lives

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/
1092690291/researchers-say-
theyve-linked-silica-dust-directly-to-severe-black-lung-disease

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