Chris Hamby Recounts Miners' Fight for Health Benefits in Soul Full of Coal Dust
Tweet In Soul Full of Coal Dust, journalist Chris Hamby revisits the stories that won him a 2014 Pulitzer Prize, exposing the treacherous tactics hired hands for the coal industry used to deprive Appalachian miners of health benefits for black lung disease. Focusing on West Virginia communities where mines offered some of the few well-paid jobs, Hamby describes the legal battles disease-stricken miners waged against their wealthy employers for modest monthly payments of $500 to $800. The weapons lawyers used when they worked for companies like Massey Coal were unconventional â X...
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