- 2,257 worked more than a year at a surface coal mine. - 46 (2 percent) were diagnosed with coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung). All but nine of those miners never worked underground.

In 2024, only about 14,000 miners or their surviving spouses were receiving black lung benefits. Monthly benefits for a miner who can no longer work are just $773. If married, the amount is $1,159.

The Alabama Surface Mining Commission has issued a notice of violation to Warrior Met Coal after two local creeks ran black for weeks with dark colored sediment near the company’s Mine No. 7 in ...

Danny Johnson, a retired coal miner with complicated black lung, holds a protective mask that used to be white, but turned black and crusted with dust during one working shift in a mine.

On 29 September 2016, the World News Daily Report web site published an article reporting that police in Kentucky had shot a white coal miner after mistaking him for a black man:. Officers of the ...

Dozens of coal miners are expected on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, where they'll press federal regulators and members of Congress to address the epidemic of deadly progressive massive fibrosis, the ...

Amna Nawaz: Well, coal mining has long been known as an arduous and dangerous job. In addition to working in very tough conditions often miles below the earth's surface, coal miners are also ...

But some say that working there, and at other coal mines across the Navajo Nation, has given miners lasting health problems, including black lung disease. After driving across the mine for about an ...

Lynch. A coal company once headed by the governor of West Virginia has failed to fully reclaim a surface mine visible from the highest peak in Kentucky, leaving a large scar in view of a planned ...

Only 57 percent of surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky were free of violations during oversight inspections in the most recent evaluation, a low rate of industry compliance on environmental and ...

Coal mining could be coming back — to an old coal mine in southeast King County. The John Henry Coal Mine, which is about 30 miles southeast of downtown Seattle, in Black Diamond, has been ...

Danny Johnson, a retired coal miner with complicated black lung, holds a protective mask that used to be white, but turned black and crusted with dust during one working shift in a mine. (Roger ...