The recognition of, and compensation for, black lung disease helped to create a much broader definition of the relationship between occupation and disease.
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You see these coal-mining towns and these people stuck in the middle of them with black lung disease and houses owned by the mine.
33.
I agree that coal mines are intrinsically more dangerous, due to coal dust causing black lung disease as well as the other factors mentioned.
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The reform measures adopted in the special session included a substantial reduction in benefits, including those to coal miners who developed black lung disease.
35.
The Labor Department is proposing broad new rules aimed at reducing black lung disease, the leading killer of U . S . coal miners.
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Congress legislated such immunity in the past to stop people from suing mining companies for black lung disease and drug companies for children's immunizations.
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In the 1980s, he won several black lung disease cases, overcoming employer objections to providing medical and financial benefits for stricken miners and their families.
38.
Hamby's story reported that doctors and lawyers working for the coal industry helped defeat benefit claims of coal miners who had contracted black lung disease.
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The Black Lung Benefits Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination by mine operators against miners who suffer from " black lung disease " ( pneumoconiosis ).
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In fact, in 1998, asbestos-related deaths overtook those black lung disease, reflecting in part the decline of the coal mining industry, the federal agency said.
