I'm glad pbs never changed like the discovery Channel
@yvonneplant94343 жыл бұрын
@@mvtito2711 PBS is part of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Some of your tax dollars are paying for it. So it's not like for profit cable or streaming services.
@johnstull92533 жыл бұрын
I live in West Virginia, and my grandfather was a coal miner and had black lung... He had to have 1 1/2 of his lungs taken out and lived roughly 10 years like that, with oxygen in use 24 hrs a day.... it was the saddest thing. He loved to hunt and fish. Then when he retired all he could do was set in the house.... I lost a lot of years worth of memories we could have made but instead all my memories are of use setting on the couch, couse he couldn't even walk to the bathroom without all most passing out from the lack of oxygen...... THIS IS A VERY SAD THING...... IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY GRANDFATHER......
@francisphillips533 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry about your grandpa. He worked so hard, then he got sick was his reward. I can tell how much you loved your grandpa. Please take care, love from California.
@amandaford8643 жыл бұрын
Sending you my condolences ❤
@freddyjimenez64343 жыл бұрын
May u find Comfort!!! God Bless ur Grandfather
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
Wish u could sue 😡
@BleedForTheWorld3 жыл бұрын
The dire state of capitalism - when you keep using humans as fodder and cattle, exploiting their very lives and being for their labour.
@theresadavis29003 жыл бұрын
You do what you have to do. Dang 😢. To watch a grown man cry breaks my heart. All they want is to make a living to support their family.
@myheartisinjapan31843 жыл бұрын
God bless this man with the big heart when he cried over the suffering of these men. It’s good to know there are good people who really care.
@sh_rl.lr_hs3 жыл бұрын
The mic the journalist used did such a great job recording the voices of the sick miners, like almost too painful to listen to how difficult is was for them to breathe
@lisasharf1442 Жыл бұрын
I listened to that sound for 18 years. My grandfather was a miner for 44 years and died from black lung. It’s something you never forget.
@deborahchesser73754 ай бұрын
@@lisasharf1442it’s bad, and to happen to the best, hard working men you’d ever meet just seems extra unfair to me.
@Adrian-zd4cs3 жыл бұрын
This video has been in my watch list for awhile but I couldnt bring myself to watch it till today because I just lost both of my parents to lung disease, they were only 70 and 71 so it physically hurts up see these young men who have unknowingly sacrificed their lives to keep this country running. Thank you for keeping such real, hard hitting coverage of our everyday people
@Tavat3 жыл бұрын
This broadcast journalist is a goddamn legend. Good stuff.
@erin190302 жыл бұрын
Let me tell you about black lung. My Dad was a coal miner and at 42 with 20 years down in the mine. He died from black lung on Christmas eve of 1948, I was just 5 years old. He went down to the cellar to stoke the furnace and his lungs burst, with coughing up blood everywhere. The last thing I remember was he head cradled in my moms arms and lap as she cried her heart out. My older sister went hysterical crying and screaming.
@SickandTired952 жыл бұрын
Wow I’m sorry for you loss
@ryanmccarthy8625 Жыл бұрын
😔💔
@lm3563 Жыл бұрын
Sincerest condolences. That is a tragedy you can never get over. Every man in my family who worked in the mines died of/with black lung. Most passed before I was born. It's disgraceful that in this day and age this is still an ongoing issue.
@lisasharf1442 Жыл бұрын
I’m so sorry for your loss, and the trauma that surrounded it. I watched my grandfather die slowly from black lung, after 44 years in the mines.
@shirataka8331 Жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry. That's unimaginably horrible.
@francisphillips533 жыл бұрын
I'm glad these folks have Dr. Carson to take care of them. (He cares so much for people.) God bless him, and his patients.
@olchat20123 жыл бұрын
That is a true angel right there and I bet he's not getting paid enough for his work...
@francisphillips533 жыл бұрын
@@olchat2012 the best ones (like him) you could never pay them enough. I feel so bad for these miners who work their whole lives, and get so sick.
@olchat20123 жыл бұрын
@@francisphillips53 Miners give their lives to support their families and it would only makes sense that, in a better world, the mine owners would take beter care of them. Mine owners are some of the richest people on earth. It breaks my heart when kids see dad slowly dying and eventually lose their father at an early age.
@francisphillips533 жыл бұрын
@@olchat2012 yes it is 😢😢😢😢
@LK-bz9sk3 жыл бұрын
Indeed. A truly empathic man🙏🏽
@Arcenia13 Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful soul this doctor has for his patients. Bravooooo for being a compassionate doctor!!!!!
@yogaflirt73 жыл бұрын
These injured coal miners need to bring a class action lawsuits against the companies that injured them. Their stories break my heart.
@fredthompson45683 жыл бұрын
That CEO " Soulless" Drawn Smirk to not confront the question. Can't say Silica.
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
@@fredthompson4568 exactly 😡
@jonhofelich91073 жыл бұрын
One of the problems is a worker in this kind of trade darn near signs their life away the day they get hired. No signature, no job. Unions are supposed to be the stewards to prevent this sort of thing.
@WillBlindYouWithLight2 жыл бұрын
Doing that. Would kill out what's left. We need electricity, and they need jobs. Not only that, Obama and Biden took these jobs away because they have an agenda. Trump got them back so Biden took them away. If they ever do this we're all screwed.
@kellyusher1 Жыл бұрын
most of the sick or injured miners die before they get their case settled. they have been abused and used then thrown away. these cases are hard to fight and I mean hard. so many just gave up the fight. still love bloody harlan. I will stand by all miner till I die and I never set foot in one. family made damn sure of that 50 or so years ago. not a cousin, nor uncles had to. they watched their dads, grandfathers and family die in front of them. they said "no more" some do keep their words. I would have loved to listen to their stores instead of it all having to be passed down. God bless a miner
@waywardboi3 жыл бұрын
This is why we NEED regulation of big corporations they will literally take your life to make money!
@kimjongun51723 жыл бұрын
Or just stop mining coal . We don’t need it anymore
@jjones25093 жыл бұрын
@@kimjongun5172 we kind of need it. We need time to convert coal plants or replace them.
@kimjongun51723 жыл бұрын
@@jjones2509 maybe the USA. My country stopped being coal dependent 20 years ago...
@ApeX-lr8cg3 жыл бұрын
@@kimjongun5172 size of your country?
@tiadeese3 жыл бұрын
NEVER going to happen. They pay to play in politics & legislation.
@billkuhl40513 жыл бұрын
This is so sad. These guys don't deserve to suffer like this. Something has to be done
@redmustangredmustang3 жыл бұрын
It requires some type of government intervention and sadly these people vote against their own self interest. There are those doctors, nurses, respiratory therapist that try to give these guys longer lives, but in the end they just die off sadly. It's easy to say quit the job but where would they go. They need retraining and it up to them to find where they can get a low cost retraining or free from the state. I wish it was that simply, but it isn't sadly. For some capitalism where renewable energy and natural gas is closing coal plants which is saving some lies sadly. Still once you get diagnosed with the advanced black lung, it's progressive meaning their situation is not going to get any better.
@dbdsaltminer3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely heartbreaking. Especially when you hear rhetoric about providing jobs for miners. Great you open mines for them to work in but you don't take care of them and leave them to die painful deaths gasping for air. Just so you can save money that could save their lives. Absolutely disgusting.
@rachaelb94693 жыл бұрын
Please, please keep what you are doing Frontline
@trashpanda3143 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was electrocuted and killed in an an underground mine in 1979. The company paid part of his pension to my grandmother for 20 years then she was left with nothing but social security and died penniless. My father was a above ground(strip miner) and the company laid him off after 9 years and change, just months short of the 10 years required for a pension. These companies don't give 2 shits about the men that die for their profits.
@wvcoalminer83542 жыл бұрын
Just found this the doctors tears were from the heart as I am a 24 yr mining veteran coughing and feeling like I am going to pass out love the life and brotherhood
@kkoup353 жыл бұрын
What I’m wondering - how many of the coal industry executives and state representatives would send their own children down in the mines? Do they think it’s safe? I think the answers speak for themselves...
@Maven06663 жыл бұрын
My grandfather died of black lung,that caused cancer in his throat. Heart breaking!
@ewalker10573 жыл бұрын
💔
@francisphillips533 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry about your grandpa.
@Sachin-us2sh3 жыл бұрын
Sad 💔
@ajack13122 жыл бұрын
My grandpa didn't die from the black lung but it greatly affected from when he got it through the rest of his life, he died of a stroke before black lung could get him. He was a black coal miner a very long time ago in the now closed Pratt Mine of Birmingham Alabama. My dad was born and raised in "Pratt City" a neighborhood in Birmingham that actually still exists but it used to be a "company town" NOT a neighborhood. The mining company owners owned EVERYTHING. The stores, the houses, it was obscene. They got very very rich off of the hard work and suffering of many men over the years then closed it down and rode off into the sunset. Pratt City is still an impoverished neighborhood today, with all the added modern problems like drugs and violence. "Robber barons" is all I think when I think of the owners of these companies that do nothing to protect their workers or the problems they leave in their wake.
@Maven06662 жыл бұрын
@@ajack1312 I feel ya,man. My grandfather didn’t die of black lung. He died of esophageal cancer. A lot of men that got rich are dead now,and all of those mines are scheduled to collapse. I hope they didn’t build anything important on top if them.
@osirisandilio3 жыл бұрын
30 years in residential remodeling, the hidden danger of Asbestos does the same thing. The people with the money don't care about laborers. No treatment, no cure and we brought it home on our clothes and bodies to share with our families and friends. Thanks for the protection OSHA
@crotalusatrox79312 жыл бұрын
I'm an AHERA certified Asbestos Abatement Contractor and Supervisor and I concur.
@ohioskane3633 жыл бұрын
When corporate profits are top priority, the earth is desecrated and people are disposable.
@lisasharf1442 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather was a coal miner for 44 years and had to retire because of black lung. He died the day after my 18th birthday, in 1978. They didn’t have respiratory therapy programs like they do now. He never left his recliner, except to eat or use the bathroom. He often slept there, and when he did actually sleep in bed, he slept almost upright in order to breathe.
@suburbanwoman62803 жыл бұрын
Coal union signed up for green energy recently. They want it. Good sign. These people need help and they need it now. Let’s fund some infrastructure and include green energy projects for gods sake.
@yvonneplant94343 жыл бұрын
They have no choice. The coal industry has been dying for a while. But, yes, these people need help! They worked to provide for their families and helped build the country through their work.
@RoCK3rAD3 жыл бұрын
Who’s gonna pay?
@spacetoast77833 жыл бұрын
@@RoCK3rAD People who need electricity.
@suburbanwoman62803 жыл бұрын
@@RoCK3rAD Who is gonna pay for what? You can bet it won’t be the millionaires and billionaires..they don’t contribute anything to American taxes. So it will be on the back of what is left of the middle class. Why does Amazon pay 0 in taxes? Oh right, because the Republican Party in 2017 made that LAW
@hall911guy3 жыл бұрын
@@suburbanwoman6280 You obviously understand nothing about taxes. Corporate America pays no taxes because those corporations pass those tax hikes into increasing the prices that the people pay at the counter or on the web. Look this fact up: the top 1% of America’s richest pay about 95% of all federal income tax.
@LK-bz9sk3 жыл бұрын
It hurt to watch these men suffer so much. And the cooperate indifference while not surprising pisses me off.
@LBG-cf8gu Жыл бұрын
my grandfather was a iron miner. he died at 46 of silicosis. thanks for the upload.
@wkymole33 жыл бұрын
PBS does the work that federal regulating authorities should be doing.
@JoeMacStevens3 жыл бұрын
13:02 the price these men have to pay isn’t worth it anymore.
@alexcarter88073 жыл бұрын
I had a fly-by-night company set up next to my shop and they did all kinds of cutting of "marble" (mostly fake) countertops and it was filling my shop with this awful white dust. I tried talking to them, telling their workers about silicosis, etc. Finally the guy confronted me and threatened me physically. I told him, "You are trying to destroy my business. I will destroy yours". I got every G.D. inspector and regulatory body involved that I could. It was hot 'n' cold running inspectors. And eventually I hounded the guy out of here. It was him or me. I was going to leave and got be homeless where the air's clean rather than get all that white crap in my lungs. As it is, the air's filthy here in Silicon Valley and I can't wait to get to retirement in a few years and get out of here.
@loreen13403 жыл бұрын
Who thumbs downed this video...? The guy who needed his picture taken 🤦♀️...?
@oneshothunter98773 жыл бұрын
Shareholders in coalmines...?
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
@@oneshothunter9877 💯
@IndelibleHD Жыл бұрын
🤔
@onemorething1003 жыл бұрын
I watched as my stepfather Died of Mesothelioma. It tore my heart out every time he coughed.
@crotalusatrox79312 жыл бұрын
Caused by asbestos exposure coupled with smoking, a deadly disease. Sad and totally preventable when a person is aware of what he's exposed to.
@chrisjmiller63 жыл бұрын
Silica dust is deadly. Years ago I used to do a lot of sandblasting using silica sand. The dust it created was so fine, no mask or respirator helped.
@thersten3 жыл бұрын
Whenever i get too happy I can always count on Frontline to make me depressed. 😔
@irate743 жыл бұрын
So why do you watch it?
@thersten3 жыл бұрын
@@irate74 because Frontline is one of the best shows on tv. duh
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
Or make me grateful. My job or life isn that bad afterall. Low pay, but wth.
@adambathon3 жыл бұрын
The end where the reporter even started to choke up really hit me.
@matthew-jy5jp3 жыл бұрын
Coal dust is not a Deadly Secret it literally blackened the Skies of England. Anyone who doesn't realize this dust with Cole has got two already have brain damage
@imNotGivingMyNameToAComputer3 жыл бұрын
5 seconds into this documentary and it's already a damn shame
@AJ-hz3tx3 жыл бұрын
Welp, Dr. Carson made me weep 😭
@sammyg.85323 жыл бұрын
Why didn't the industry do something about this problem while it was taking place in the past? Answer, they were quite overwhelmed by how much they were profiting.
@bokani793 жыл бұрын
And Republicans always passing laws that protect corporations from being held accountable of inhumane practices.
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
@@bokani79 Riiiiight....too busy making corporations as “ people “. And those are the only people they gaf about
@IndelibleHD Жыл бұрын
Money
@ac11433 жыл бұрын
Black lung killed my great grandpa. Same problem these guys are facing today. More lip service. No action.
@T61APL892 жыл бұрын
20:54 I love this bit, the surprise NPR reporter and PBS camera crew... a corporate official's worst nightmare
@emiliorosa98963 жыл бұрын
Thanks u frontline. Love that way gets to the true so professional
@billdavis6978 Жыл бұрын
As someone who grinds concrete floors for a living, I understand the benefits of respirators . Even a handkerchief is better than nothing. Our company provides them, but only 25% use them given the choice to wear.
@xXGOTCRABSXx537 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. That’s why it happens. People don’t wear their PPE. This is very one sided.
@erichoff75113 жыл бұрын
Great story.. great show to create awareness of this solvable problem
@jposton52353 жыл бұрын
Doctors that care, the best kind.
@cbk6663 жыл бұрын
Life is hard. We must appreciate even a slightest breath. 🙏
@sammyg.85323 жыл бұрын
When people say America is the land of opportunity, what they are really saying is yes, you have a chance to become rich, but are you willing to achieve those riches at the expense of other people's lives?
@ginariffe55253 жыл бұрын
Of course the corporations are willing to achieve those riches at the expense of other people’s lives. Profits before people has always been their motto. Unregulated capitalism is not capitalism at all.
@carrieblake37903 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately that question is to often answered with a yes
@imNotGivingMyNameToAComputer3 жыл бұрын
@@ginariffe5525 what we have is capitalism with a sprinkle of public and corporate socialism. What is happening on the docu is true capitalism, cutthroat, ruthless, and unregulated. The mindset of those mine bosses is if they don't do it there competitors will.
@KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH3 жыл бұрын
That is so true. Well said..
@alexcarter88073 жыл бұрын
Opportunity to become dirt-poor and homeless, USA is a shithole. People's perception of the US is like 50 years out of date.
@WLBarton44663 жыл бұрын
I grew up in southwest Virginia and mine workers called it " rocks in the box." That was in the 1960s.
@tylershadwick77513 жыл бұрын
May God bless those working in mines,true American heroes.
@naviance72663 жыл бұрын
Frontline makes me feel so safe at night
@waverlyphillips28498 ай бұрын
Frontline does such wonderful investigative work that the mainstream media often ignores. Awful seeing that man so upset. How depressing it has to be only 47 and be stricken down with a debilitating diseases due to the Coal industry and regulator’s indifference.
@samspade4363 жыл бұрын
Frontline is the best news program on the planet!
@ek67643 жыл бұрын
They don't have a tv station which is sad
@myoldvhstapes3 жыл бұрын
@@ek6764: Frontline is PBS.
@Durgenheim3 жыл бұрын
The romanticization of the coal industry by those who are exploited by it is very puzzling.
@blacksthrnbelle2 жыл бұрын
ABSOLUTELY
@carrieblake37903 жыл бұрын
Thank you to all the coal miners! This is eye opening and horrible!
@BluetheRaccoon3 жыл бұрын
We all know why the industry refused proposed protections. Profits. Corporations are a machine, and once it chews you up there's another one right behind you waiting for your spot.
@malecho3 жыл бұрын
Frontline please....More....MORE!
@mysteryguest95553 жыл бұрын
It seems that the regulatory agency, miners, coal executives are aware of the problem and is sympathetic to the miners yet for some reason their is no progress being made. This is maddening to observe and makes me want to think that the coal mining companies are cognizant of the hazard and are willing to accept it as a cost of doing business. Sort of like going to war knowing that you will lose 20% of your troops and is considered an acceptable price to pay for success. Those poor young men were used, plain and simple. They probably had very little or no other opportunity to find work and they were thrown lots of money and perks but didn't realise the heavy price they would be paying. We really need to get off of coal as the coal mining companies and the regulators are unwilling to make needed changes to prevent this disease from infecting the miners.
@sammyg.85323 жыл бұрын
Are there not any type of industrial masks that protect from such toxic dust?
@francisphillips533 жыл бұрын
Yes.. but after awhile, they get saturated with moisture.. and hard to work in.
@wystearya43473 жыл бұрын
It costs money. These companies won't spend one extra penny if they don't have to.
@xXGOTCRABSXx537 Жыл бұрын
@@wystearya4347 yeah, this isn’t true at all. They have to supply the PPE to all employees.
@simplethings37303 жыл бұрын
Where I live in Central Texas they are putting wind generators up all around us. I have 600 watts of solar power at my house. It came in really handy when we lost power during the Great Blizzard back in February. We need to leave all of that filth in the ground where it belongs and that includes oil.
@Overonator3 жыл бұрын
This is what happens in Capitalism. You make the workers pay the price, exploit them, while most of the benefits go to someone else.
@Hedgeflexlfz3 жыл бұрын
Basically
@BangBangBang.3 жыл бұрын
as opposed to communist organ harvesting of the random public? No wonder your icon is a bag over your head, I recommend you apply the icon to your daily fashion
@Overonator3 жыл бұрын
@@BangBangBang. Yes one of the communist core principles is involuntary organ harvesting. I also heard they are fine with canabalism and they sometimes don't even have toilet paper.
@Reservoirpuppies Жыл бұрын
What you think happens in communism or socialism It’s even worse Same crap . It’s a double edged sword
@stewartlittle69753 жыл бұрын
I have to take a picture .I can't discuss the issue about minors dying. Typical money over problems
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
These people were always this way...and miners knew it.
@OSCAR82AA3 жыл бұрын
Coal mining goes on in many countries in Europe and the countries and companies do so much more for the workers there to help prevent this terrible stuff from happening.The way these workers were treated is beyond disaster and companies and this country should have to pay and help these families.
@Highley19583 жыл бұрын
Coal is the absolute worst way to produce energy. Nobody in their right mind wants to be around where coal is mined or where coal is burned.
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t even want to live in that state
@billgatesleavingyamomshous81773 жыл бұрын
Dang bo you a real hard working American 🇺🇸 God bless you sir
@cheeveka33 жыл бұрын
Making me feel fortune about having healthy lungs
@ALCRAN20103 жыл бұрын
Imagine these people contracting covid... damn.
@Isawwhatyoudid Жыл бұрын
Not to mention that this is a region where those who subscribe to vaccine conspiracy theories are probably higher than the national average. Also they tend to vote for the very same people who are largely *against* regulations of any kind.
@bmzaron7132 жыл бұрын
Can someone please donate the man a battery powered lawnmower.. Breathing in fumes from an old lawnmower in the heat of the day would make a lot of people nauseous.. Hopefully he just cut the grass for the documentary, which was great.. I hope all these guys feel a little better (mentally & physically). This really sucks
@drejlangseth25793 жыл бұрын
Just one more reason why we should go to universal health care and why Congress's healthcare covg. should be held hostage until we do or until they give us the same plan as we pay for them to enjoy. Simple choice for this disabled Public Health Nurse.
@haoyuguo39293 жыл бұрын
i have seen several people getting this disease, the only way to cure is to change lung and probably one lung will not work and need to find another one.
@laurabogue3503 Жыл бұрын
While I feel sorry for these families, I cant help but scratch my head in confussion. These people did this to themselves. Fighting against technology and arguing that coal development is the lifeblood of Appalachia. Hearing these stories highlights that coal has a real life consequence.
@jeremyslawson-qb1eg9 ай бұрын
I have COPD & chronic bronchitis this breaks my heart, I had to quit the job that I absolutely loved to do I used to work on 2 turkey farm's.
@falconeddy2543 жыл бұрын
It's the rock dusting that the mines add to the coal dust that could be part of it.
@Isawwhatyoudid Жыл бұрын
They say as much in the video. The thin coal seams require more rock to be cut and that creates silica dust which is cited in the video as some 20 times more dangerous.
@ThePhobosAnomally3 жыл бұрын
May none of these people get covid.
@rhetleonard29683 жыл бұрын
Individual accountability must be a part of this issue. Don’t expect others (mine owners, government regulators) to look out for you. The dangers around coal mining have been known for many decades. Acutely known by miners and those communities around mining areas. Let’s also hear the stories of would be miners, but for the risks involved. There are many people in those mountains that say no way am I working in that death trap. Life is full of sadness and consequences.
@autumnbranch58393 жыл бұрын
Billions in tax payer supported subsidies over the last 100 years to big coal, who renigned on their responsibilities, yet, under any other circumstances, these same people would be charging the reporter with being 'fake.'😕
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
💯
@valerie73123 жыл бұрын
he cared more about getting in a picture than helping the miners...
@Sachin-us2sh3 жыл бұрын
Whom ?
@radar21163 жыл бұрын
Men still do what they always do, sacrifice themselves for the people they love. The world salutes you.
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
Not a good choice in this case. I would rather be there for my family. I would have left the state.
@minakatahizuru Жыл бұрын
Biggest joke I have read.
@kellyusher1 Жыл бұрын
electric cars still need coal. period. if you research everything that is in everything that goes into making one, coal is still used, just saying
@bbt3053 жыл бұрын
He engaged, he could say no comment but his guilt was shown from his fear of reporters. And reporters only go after wounded dogs. Coal mines? I can think of some issues Very important that reporters fear.
@JimKendrick-s5k10 ай бұрын
I dont know how much these coal miners make a year but its not enough i have all the respect in the world for these miners and their families
@amandabarker20473 жыл бұрын
Coal miners are very hard workers
@jeremyslawson85403 жыл бұрын
I used to work on a turkey farm I absolutely loved it I miss it alot but unfortunately I had to quit work on the turkey farm because if I didn't quit it would eventually kill me.
@vicshrily2 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Slawson - Turkeys don’t kill you.
@lauralamantia55142 жыл бұрын
@@vicshrily R u sure? I think mine have been plotting my demise for quite some time. Can never be too sure about these things of course
@sofil2360-k3p3 жыл бұрын
Head of Corporations don't care about safty 100% Even they know,They just need work done and make money.
@Edison731003 жыл бұрын
West Virginian coal miners were one of the first Americans to have bombs dropped on them for trying to unionize. The other Americans that had bombs dropped on them were in Tulsa Oklahoma.
@CountryCarReviews3 жыл бұрын
0:40 He wore a mask before it was required. What a pioneer
@sheastinson28383 жыл бұрын
How sad I feel like that doctor - all for us to have luxury.....
@erin19030 Жыл бұрын
Silica dust also exists in the steel industry. My dad died of black lung at the age of 43.
@alexklaskaris3 жыл бұрын
Are these the same communities begging to keep coal around? Someone square that circle for me?
@markantony3875 Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the Southwestern PA, literally every adult male I knew had black lung or some other mining injury. I thought it was normal for everyone to get black lung when they got older. My grandfather told us grandkids to go to college and stay the hell away from the mines. Best advice ever. He and several of my uncles died of black lung. On top of that, 2 of my uncles also had parts of their hands missing from mining accidents. Southwestern PA is littered with old company mining towns and they are all the same: rows of duplex houses, a Catholic church (most of the miners were from Italy or Eastern Europe) and a granite memorial of all the miners who were killed by the mine. People in other areas of the country have no idea the hell these people when through.
@esinyenetabo23563 жыл бұрын
PBS FRONTLINE very truthful
@Arze5553 жыл бұрын
I worked in a factory where I would cut open and dump 50-100lb bags of silica dust into a mixer all day long. ☹
@MrCTruck3 жыл бұрын
Big oof
@staciasmith51623 жыл бұрын
Prayers, and please get yourself checked out.
@Arze5553 жыл бұрын
@@staciasmith5162 thanks. I haven't got a primary doctor but I'm working on it. It's probably not related but these past few weeks I've been hit with a wall of exhaustion. I got some basic bloodwork done yesterday and it said my hemoglobin count was low. It's crazy to risk your physical health for minimum wage.
@Shusha00293 жыл бұрын
This is why coal needs to be replaced with renewable energy. I am a coal miners daughter and it is a horrible place to work and it is basically the only job in these areas.
@teekolinski491 Жыл бұрын
Coal Miners need the same regulations as NYC Sandhogs. To die from silica in the lungs is a horrible way to die.
@dhiosalehmining3746 Жыл бұрын
Thankyou for the video..really good info
@CatatonicImperfect3 жыл бұрын
24:30 "Our focus here is forward looking. [...] I can't answer for [...] the past." Judges hate this one trick.
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
“50,000 still work in coal mines even now” ...wtf😳
@anm29453 жыл бұрын
So this is my scared lungs.
@ashog14263 жыл бұрын
Young sad god be with them I will pray.
@geonerd3 жыл бұрын
Maybe god should have done something BEFORE their lungs were destroyed?!
@ashog14263 жыл бұрын
@@geonerd he probably did they just didnt pay attention cuz they wanna feed their families
@iammotley92123 жыл бұрын
They most definitely need Mullen, it grows in cow pastures and on the sides of country roads.
@ghost844296 ай бұрын
Incredible episode.
@imiss2pac4273 жыл бұрын
I thought trump was gonna help them and they voted for him?
@c.f.okonta88153 жыл бұрын
Trump 2024
@greenearthblueskies85563 жыл бұрын
@@c.f.okonta8815 🤣🤣🤣
@waltersabin809910 ай бұрын
Yo. Thankyou for the video and comments. I have yet to meet a miner that I cannot empathize with and respect. Thank you for all those days working in the darknest and dust. Some people doing it so long, to retirement. Those good parts driven by the fellowship around you at work.. Thanks so much for your career. Coal Miners. Salute. This nation is great because of you in so many ways.
@proudlakerfan3 жыл бұрын
I guess I can Google this question but I'm gonna ask this dumb question anyway. How come those miners don't wear masks of some kind? To limit their exposure if not eliminate them?