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US Department of Labor Launches Awareness Effort for Miners with Black Lung

US Department of Labor launches awareness effort for miners with black lung, promote testing to reduce exposures to hazardous levels of coal dust
News Release Posted: [September 29, 2022]

Initiative emphasizes miners’ health, protection of rights as workers

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today 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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