Evidentially, the regulations need to be tightened up again, and the technology improved.
In the 1970s I had a summer job at the Dept. of Labor as a clerk in the Black Lung Compensation program. The filings were horrible. Miners would sometimes die before they were awarded compensation. (Fortunately, their widows got something, as I recall.)
Silica dust is honestly a bigger risk at this point with all the measures we have, but ya regulations have been loosened. These aren’t regulations for performative nonsense either, it’s literally to prevent a completely avoidable scenario.
Miners do not get black lung nowadays. They are protected with extensive safety measures.
My sources were from the 1990s, when the disease was almost eradicated. Apparently there has been a resurgence since then. See:
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/black-lung/learn-about-black-lung
Evidentially, the regulations need to be tightened up again, and the technology improved.
In the 1970s I had a summer job at the Dept. of Labor as a clerk in the Black Lung Compensation program. The filings were horrible. Miners would sometimes die before they were awarded compensation. (Fortunately, their widows got something, as I recall.)
Silica dust is honestly a bigger risk at this point with all the measures we have, but ya regulations have been loosened. These aren’t regulations for performative nonsense either, it’s literally to prevent a completely avoidable scenario.
You are saying the American Lung Association is not a viable source of information on lung disease? What would be a viable source?