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The most fatalities during the 2005–2014 decade were 48 in 2010, the year of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners. [41] Chronic lung diseases, such as pneumoconiosis (black lung) were once common in miners, leading to reduced life expectancy.
Life expectancy is also likely to be affected by exposure to high levels of highway air pollution or industrial air pollution. This is one way that occupation can have a major effect on life expectancy. Coal miners (and in prior generations, asbestos cutters) often have lower life expectancies than average.
The miners: years of struggle: a history of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1910 onwards. 1953. Arnot, R. P. The miners: in crisis and war: a history of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1930 onwards. 1961; Arnot, Robert Page. South Wales Miners, Glowyr de Cymru: a History of the South Wales Miners' Federation (1914 ...
Chronic lung diseases, such as pneumoconiosis (black lung) were once common in miners, leading to reduced life expectancy. In some mining countries black lung is still common, with 4,000 new cases of black lung every year in the US (4 percent of workers annually) and 10,000 new cases every year in China (0.2 percent of workers). [66]
Most of the counties in the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield rank in the lowest ten percent of U.S. counties in average life expectancy. Both men and women have average life spans that are several years less than the average life span in the United States. Moreover, many counties have seen a decline in the life expectancy of men and/or women since 1985.
While some Black miners and their families fled to Louisville for safety, others stayed. Ultimately, of the 62 miners killed in the explosion, 51 were Black. 1970: Hurricane Creek mine disaster ...
Between 1849 and 1853, miners over the age of 25 in the Merthyr Tydfil district were found to have a life expectancy of around 20 years lower than in other mining areas of England and Wales. [ 16 ] In the 1930s, mine owners became concerned about the adverse health effects of coal dust and the amount it was costing them to compensate miners ...
Sep. 3—The retired editor of the Reading Eagle has written a new book about a man who escaped the life of a coal miner to become a star baseball player. "Gentleman Jake: The Success and Tragedy ...