Up to one-fourth of state’s coal miners have black lung, showing the need to maintain funding of federal agency - The Mountain Eagle

Up to one-fourth of state’s coal miners have black lung, showing the need to maintain funding of federal agency - The Mountain Eagle

DR. BRANDON CRUM, A RADIOLOGIST and Black Lung B Reader, discusses his study of 877 miners, which shows an increasing number of miners have complicated Black Lung at earlier ages than ever before. (Photo by Sam Adams) Between a fifth and a quarter of central Appalachian miners have complicated black lung, a study by the largest black lung clinic in Kentucky indicates, underlining the need to maintain funding for the National Institute of Safety …