Queensland miners dispirited by return of black lung disease
by Australian Associated Press from on (#10MM7)
State minister for mines calls in data from health authority to track possible cases of condition caused by breathing in coal dust over long periods
Underground coalminers feel let down by the system amid fears more workers could be diagnosed with the potentially deadly black lung disease in Queensland, a mining union says.
Five cases have been confirmed in the state, indicating pneumoconiosis had re-emerged for the first time at Australian coalmines in three decades.
