Return of black lung due to poor regulation: Senate committee

Thursday, 28 Apr 2016 10:03:12 | Dan Conifer

Eight miners have been diagnosed with black lung over the past year. (AFP)

A Senate committee has slammed poor regulation and incompetence within the mining industry for the re-emergence of a deadly condition in coal miners.

Black lung disease is sustained by inhaling coal dust and was thought to have been eradicated decades ago.

But eight miners have been diagnosed with the condition over the past year.

The committee's chairwoman, Labor senator Deborah O'Neill, said poor controls on dust in mines and patchy monitoring were also to blame.

"You put all these things together and what we've seen is a disease, that Australian miners thought was gone 30 years ago, has quietly and insidiously re-emerged," she said.

More to come.

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Return of black lung due to poor regulation: Senate committee

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