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Black lung disease more common among modern coal miners than in their predecessors

Staff Writer | May 09, 2023 | 5:43 am Energy News USA Coal 

A study by researchers at National Jewish Health, a Denver-based academic hospital/clinic, found that coal miners that were born after 1930, employed modern mining technologies and developed progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) or black lung disease, worked significantly fewer years than...

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