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OSHA Launches Awareness Effort for Miners with Black Lung, Promote Testing

OSHA Launches Awareness Effort for Miners with Black Lung, Promote Testing
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Labor announced an effort to raise awareness of regulations that give coal miners with development of pneumoconiosis, or black lung, the right to work at a section of a mine with lower levels of dust without having their pay reduced or fearing discrimination or termination

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