A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR A Kentucky coal company and one of ...
Coal miner Scott Tiller works next to a drill in an underground coal mine roughly 40-inches-high in Welch, West Virginia. May 11, 2016. (Photo by: Scott Tiller, AP Images). This story originally ...