Few winning black-lung benefits From: Charleston Gazette | Date: February 11, 2004| Author: Bruce Schreiner | Copyright 2004 Charleston Gazette. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Coal miners are overwhelmingly losing black-lung claims under a review system created two years ago, according to statistics presented to a Kentucky House committee Tuesday.

Labor leaders seized upon the numbers as evidence that flaws exist in awarding benefits to miners afflicted with black-lung disease - pneumoconiosis, an ailment caused from inhaling coal dust.

"The proof's in the numbers that the bill is not working like we had hoped that it would," said Ste...

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