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Outside of politics, Wheeler works as a lawyer at Wheeler & Baker, PLLC in Pikeville, KY. As a lawyer, Wheeler has represented former coal miners who suffer from black lung disease. [2] He was elected to the Kentucky Senate in a March 2019 special election, succeeding Ray Jones. [3]
West Virginia University law professor Pat McGinley, who was part of a state team investigating the 2010 Upper Big Branch mining disaster that killed 29 miners, called the resurgence of black lung ...
Black lung disease (BLD), also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis, [1] or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term inhalation and deposition of coal dust in the lungs and the consequent lung tissue's reaction to its presence. [2] It is common in coal miners and others who work with coal.
Paul Edward Patton (born May 26, 1937) is an American politician who served as the 59th governor of Kentucky from 1995 to 2003. Because of a 1992 amendment to the Kentucky Constitution, he was the first governor eligible to run for a second term in office, since James Garrard, in 1800.
Crystalline silica, of course, is a leading cause of pneumoconiosis, or black lung, a dust-induced scarring lung disease that leads to the death of about 1,000 miners each year. And, yet, it is ...
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She created the Mud Creek Water District and served as president of the Kentucky Black Lung Association. [4] In response to the failed OEO health program in Floyd County, in 1973, she established the Mud Creek Clinic in Grethel, Kentucky. [5] In 1977, she divorced her first husband and the next year married Oliver Hall, a retired miner.
Laboring to breathe, West Virginia coal miner Terry Lilly told federal regulators Thursday he is appreciative the U.S. government is finally considering a proposal to limit the poisonous rock dust ...