Black Lung Disease cases on the rise; how one miner got help

Full story: indianapublicm... Forty years ago, Jeffrey Chandler left the coal mining industry.
“It was a very dirty, dirty job,” he said. “We would come home, and I mean, we had to take our clothes off before we even went in the house. We’d get in the shower; our sinuses were full of black coal. We breathed that daily and nightly.”
Now in his 70’s, he suffers from black lung disease, an ailment affecting about 16 percent of those who work in the coal industry.