Court Settlement Requires Utah to Establish, Fund Miners' Hospital. From: Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT) | Date: January 25, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Salt Lake Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Mike Gorrell

Jan. 25--If a promise made 110 years ago had been kept, retired coal miner Charles Byrge might not be confined so completely these days to his mobile home outside Price, tethered constantly to oxygen tanks that sustain his labored breathing.

He might not have avoided getting "black lung" disease, not after working 43 years in dusty underground mining conditions and being a smoker on top of that.

But if the state had fulfilled i...

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