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Miners have dusty lungs flushed clean
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 9, 2010, Tuesday
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SEEING the 12 liters of water drawn by doctors from his lungs as black as tar, a veteran coal miner said he couldn't believe his underground work had such a toll on his health -- even six years after he left the shaft.
Like his fellow workers, the 51-year-old Long Huaiwen in a coal mine in Baicheng County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has suffered from the black lung disease, a legacy of his 16 years blasting at coal faces.
He and other 10 workers, aged 36 to 59, took a company-sponsored trip to the Xinjiang Occupational Disease Hospital in Urumqi, the regional capital, for a series of lung tests on October 15, the local news portal Yaxin.com reported today.
After undergoing a two-hour lung lavage, dozens of bottles containing black liquid extracted from the miners were lined up on a shelf as a grim reminder of the coal dust they inhaled for years.
Each bottle has a tag bearing the worker's name although doctors here can easily tell their profession by the liquid color. The fluid from a cement plant worker is grey and that from a woodcutter looks yellow. A bottle of black fluid suggests it is from a coal miner, said one doctor in the hospital.
Like his fellow workers, the 51-year-old Long Huaiwen in a coal mine in Baicheng County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has suffered from the black lung disease, a legacy of his 16 years blasting at coal faces.
He and other 10 workers, aged 36 to 59, took a company-sponsored trip to the Xinjiang Occupational Disease Hospital in Urumqi, the regional capital, for a series of lung tests on October 15, the local news portal Yaxin.com reported today.
After undergoing a two-hour lung lavage, dozens of bottles containing black liquid extracted from the miners were lined up on a shelf as a grim reminder of the coal dust they inhaled for years.
Each bottle has a tag bearing the worker's name although doctors here can easily tell their profession by the liquid color. The fluid from a cement plant worker is grey and that from a woodcutter looks yellow. A bottle of black fluid suggests it is from a coal miner, said one doctor in the hospital.
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