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...pension and safety benefits, his advisors emphasize the industry's meager pension benefits of $150 a month and an injury rate three times that of manufacturing industries. The fatality rate of 120 miners a year far outstrips that of any other country's coal industry, and the infamous "black lung" disease afflicts one out of three miners--including Miller himself...
John Kunst, then 25, was shot dead; David, with a bullet hole in one lung, flew home to Waseca to recuperate for three months. When he returned to Afghanistan to resume the journey, his companion was his other brother Peter, now 29. Refused per mission to cross China, the Kunsts trudged to Calcutta, then detoured to Australia...
...exceeded the unsafe standards then in effect or even that asbestos was dangerous. Company doctors told ailing employees to stop smoking. When one protested that he smoked nothing but an occasional cigar, a Tyler plant manager told him he must be drinking too much milk-the spot on his lung X ray was a calcium deposit. When 31% of the rats exposed to one type of asbestos dust in a medical experiment developed lung cancer, an industry researcher argued that it must have been caused by metal tracings from the hammer used to pound the material into dust. "Nobody ever...
...workers are employed and another 800,000 have been. Among that million workers, a new official of HEW's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health estimates that there will be 3,000 excess deaths each year for the next 20 or 30 years from cancer of the lung and respiratory disease...
...research ranges more widely than Brodeur's. She tracks down cases of beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage to nerves and organs from carbon disulfide among workers in rayon textile plants. Muscle and Blood also explores continuing safety hazards...