Keeping Miners Safe During COVID-19

Making Connections News

On this Making Connections News episode, we are covering COVID-19 and the continuing health danger it poses for coal miners and those with black lung, about precautions to take to prevent exposure, and efforts to pass a silica dust standard to lower rates of black lung disease. We hear from Dr. James Brandon Crum from Pikeville and Rebecca Shelton from the Appalachian Citizens Law Center; Dr. Connie White, Deputy Director of the Kentucky Department for Public Health; a report from the Ohio Valley ReSource's Sydney Boles on the health challenges miners working underground are facing; and Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America.