Miners with black lung don't bother with Ky. benefits: Funds for retraining are available, but alternative jobs aren't From: Charleston Daily Mail | Date: December 25, 2006| Author: ROGER ALFORD | Copyright 2006 Charleston Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Years of working in underground coal mines in the mountains of eastern Kentucky left Chester Baker with the dreaded occupational disease black lung.

But the disabled coal miner from Harlan County said no thanks to money from the Kentucky Office of Workers Claims, money that could have been used to pay for retraining for a job in some other profession.

The state program, advocates say, is of little use to people sickened by coal workers' pneumoconiosis, more comm...

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