After years underground, a Kentucky coal miner with black lung faces the future

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Danny Fouts was proud to work in a coal mine, as his father and grandfather did. He kept on when he got short of breath, even when doctors told him he had black lung disease. Now he's retired at 44, with lungs working at 45% capacity. And he may be about to lose his disability benefits.

 

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Sad.

CLEAN COAL..CAN I GET YA TO BUY ANOTHER LIE?

Didn’t Trump voters rally to send more people into the mines ?

And yet Trump wants to “save” the economy by bringing these life shortening jobs back, while poisoning the environment and us, cutting our health care and giving the failed policies of trickle down economics another shot. The man is a menace and should be removed from office

Did he vote for trump so the coal mines could continue to kill others?

Unpossible! I thought coal was clean and beautiful?

Why is this even a thing? Should be illegal or someone should have invented a mask to prevent black lung by now

😥😥😥

Must be all that clean coal.

Propaganda

Fat Cats who OWN the coal mines will live to be 100 while their workers die now in the 30's ! Worse conditions in the dirty mines with silca dust than 50 years ago !

thoughts and prayers

Straight from a JohnGrisham novel. WhoRemembers

Moar coal!

To bad he is not a illegal alien 100% covered with free housing

But hey guys Trump's bringing coal back! Who needs lungs and clean water

America comes last

So he knew it was bad for him, did it anyway. Diagnosed with black lung at 27, kept at it...

But Dr tutu said everything was going to be okay

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