Sentences with phrase «black coal dust»

On the day I arrived, the once white snow was now covered in a layer of black coal dust and grime.

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HINDMAN, Ky. (AP)-- A Kentucky jury has awarded two former coal miners who filed a civil lawsuit claiming defective dust masks led to their debilitating black - lung disease $ 67.5 million in damages.

At the bottom of the shaft I waded through some coal - black puddles, hitting my head occasionally on the low ceiling, breathing in coal dust and hot air, and sweating profusely.

Miners are at risk of silicosis, pneumoconiosis (black lung) and other diseases from coal dust.

Ligon talks about his work, including his response to Mapplethorpe via Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, the coal dust paintings, AMERICA, and the Coloring series.

Her works include tall, black, skittle - like sculptures made with coal dust and arranged in rows and in a pile on the floor.

Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.

This operation was depositing a black plume of coal dust in the water.

He remembers seeing the snow often turn black from coal dust and pollution within a day or two after falling on the ground.

Epidemiologists have linked the new wave of black lung cases to breathing in more silica dust, likely the result of a long - term shift to mining thinner seams of coal.

The meeting is to discuss proposed changes to MSHA rules to lower acceptable levels of respirable dust in mines to reduce the risk of workers contracting potentially fatal Coal Workers» Pneumoconiosis - also known as black lung disease - and other diseases.

Coal worker's pneumoconiosis — known as black lung disease or simply black lung — results from long - term exposure to coal dCoal worker's pneumoconiosis — known as black lung disease or simply black lung — results from long - term exposure to coal dcoal dust.

and then i will paint all doors black - not only do i love the look but i think it will help hide all the coal dust that occasionally sifts down from the inner walls.