Reply #1: Your pics aren't showing up. My grandfather used to work in a coal mine

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He was a foreman, he was the one who walked into a new mine with a canary to see if it died. If it did, it meant that it was unsafe for humans to work in it. He was due to retire, but had a major heart attack before he could do it, he died of black lung. He actually worked for a steel mill, and they tried to screw my grandmother over by putting paperwork through saying he "retired" before he died. He didn't, he was still working at the time, but they tried. It has to do with widow's benefits. My grandfather always told my grandmother to make sure that she got an autopsy on him when he died, because they get extra benefits if they had black lung, especially if they were still working. My grandmother had to take them to court, and it was in court for years before she got her benefits that were due her. I don't remember it that well, but I'm sure that she kept winning and they kept appealing it. I'm also pretty sure that the union took care of arranging a lot of it. I don't remember a lot of it, I was young when it happened.