Close
Contact Us
Help
Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Hide details
Add to lightbox
Add to cart
Get URL
Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Coal
Coal mining
Half length
Health
Hospitals
Illness
Indoors
KWCI (GPI)
Men
Miners
One person
Miner with Black Lung in Appalachia
A former coal miner suffering from end stage black lung disease lies in a hospital bed. He is 85 years old and worked for 35 years in the mines. He's been tested 15 to 20 times for black lung and keeps being turned down by doctors who blame his illness on other health problems. Each year, an average of 24,000 Americans die as a result of pollution from coal-fired power plants, including 2,800 from lung cancer.
Containers
Shoot:
Health Impacts on West Virginia Coal Miners
A documentation on retired miners suffering from Black Lung and other lung diseases. They have been denied benefits for Black Lung Disease and are dying from the impacts of breathing coal dust.
Conceptually similar
Unique identifier:
GP02F8X
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
02/06/2011
Locations:
Appalachian Mountains
,
North America
,
United States of America
,
West Virginia
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Size:
4752px × 3168px 11.99 MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)