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FOSTER, West Virginia — Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West ...

Black lung, a debilitating and often fatal condition caused by inhalation of coal and silica dust during mining, affects roughly 1 in 5 miners who have worked in the Central Appalachian mines for ...

Nimrod Workman started working in Appalachian coal mines at age 14, before World War I. He had to quit from injuries, including black lung, in 1952. In the early 1970s he began recording mining songs, ...