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.
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?