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Feds: Kentucky coal-mine supervisors cheated on dust samples

Eight former supervisors and safety officers at a Kentucky coal company were indicted Wednesday on federal charges that they rigged dust monitoring in underground mines, forcing miners to work in the kind of dirty conditions that can lead to black lung disease. The eight officials who worked at the now-bankrupt Armstrong Coal in western Kentucky were ...

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