I remember the whole first day of it.
I was kinda skittish, you know, wondering.
'Cause you know, you always hear the top cracking and
popping the whole time you're underground, I g-
It's just the mountain shifts.
You're wondering, is it gonna fall, the first day,
until you get used to it like I am now.
>> We are going to put
our coal miners back to work.
They have not been treated well, but
they're gonna be treated well now.
>> Coal miners are scared to
death to lose their jobs.
And they're gonna do whatever they gotta
do to protect their job and I don't blame them.
>> I've been
doing these
cases since
1980.
The majority of people I've met over the years who refuse unsafe work
probably didn't even know they had a federal right to do it.
My experience is most people who refuse unsafe work,
it's a life or death situation.
>> As soon as you walk under the mountain,
you're looking at something that could hurt you, or even kill you.
There's just rooms,
you know when just a little bitty piece of rock, says like the size of your fist,
you can hear it hit the bottom, you would know how big of a rock it is.
That's something you always look for is safety, always.
>> I would say safety is absolutely one of the most focal points of these producers.
They wanna be responsive, they want their workforce feeling safe.
A safe mine is a profitable mine.
>> Yeah, I've packed them out,
their arm tore off, broken back,
leg pretty near cut off.
I've seen them get killed, electrocuted, yeah, I've seen it all.
In fact, years ago I didn't care.
It wasn't explained to me, I didn't know anything about this black lung.
I know about it now because I have it in both lungs.
The coal dust that you breath in the mines,
it don't come off, there's no cure for it.
It just, like a cancer, it just keeps eating at your lungs.
You just can't breathe.
It'll just get worse, it ain't gonna get no better.
Believe it, it ain't gonna get no better.
First day, yeah, I remember.
I told myself if I come out, I would never go back, but
it was the best-paying job around here.
And I told my wife that I would go back and try to make it a week,
get me a good check, and I ended up staying 41 and a half years.
>> I remember the whole first day of it.
You're wondering,
is it going to fall, the first day until you get used to it I am now.
Ever since I've been 18 year old, I've been in the coal mines.
I've got four kids and a wife.
That's what my father, my whole family has done.
I guess I followed in the footsteps of it.
I've seen a lot of cut fingers, and squished fingers, and stuff like that,
but that was just the only thing I'd ever seen before my brother got killed.
It was the night shift and we was just a maintenance crew,
all we was then and I just had got done bolting to the top up.
Just had got finished and went over and got beside of my brother and
got on his- he had a little two man ride that takes you in and out.
And I sat down and as soon as I took the first bite of my sandwich,
I heard something, just a real loud boom.
The only
thing he could say was "Help me," and I just jumped up and seeing that,
me and some other- my other partner there, my other bunk shift partner, he helped me get it off of him.
But we just kept saying the impact from the equipment falling on him did kill him.
Killed him right there.
Ever since that accident, anything I see from there on, I've really paid attention.
Just anything that catches my eye, I just make sure somebody's got
the attention that that could hurt somebody, try to get the problem fixed.
>> When I found out that I had black lung in both lungs, I went in there and
I talked to them and I told them that I filed for a Part 90.
Part 90 is when you got black lung,
they supposed to move you into a place where there ain't no dust.
I had a lot of friends.
But when I used my Part 90, the coal company- they turned against me.
The men turned against me.
Coal miners are scared to death to lose their job and
they gonna do whatever they gotta do to protect their job.
And I don't blame them.
I don't blame them at all.
If you complain too much about safety,
you get branded a trouble maker.
If you refuse to do something, you're probably gonna get fired or
if you don't get fired, you'll be put on the shit list.
>> They write 'die rat' on my locker with black marker.
They wouldn't talk to me.
Most of them just turned their head.
I worked with these guys for years but I toughed it out.
I didn't let them run me off.
It's all about the coal.
I'm telling you, it's all about getting the coal out.
>> Coal in Kentucky is more than just a job,
this is something that we're all affected by.
You get it in your blood, and
that is something that goes beyond most occupations in this state.
>> The reason I like Harlan County is, I guess it's just where I grew up.
And really the only thing here is coal mining.
And you see a lot of people, that's all they do.
Any feller, they just- they do coal mining.
I guess you just find friends that way, 'cause they've- you just, like, if you find somebody out and
they see you dirty, they're gonna to start talking to you generally just about coal
mining, because you work in the mines and they do too.
A lot of people, you know, they do make good choices like going in the Army and
stuff like that before coal mining.
But usually if coal mining is big, usually the young people they think
of staying in Harlan county and making good money while they stay at home.
So that's why you see a lot of young miners in the coal mining.
I'd say, if my kids stick around, yeah, they'll probably get with somebody that,
yeah, will probably work in the coal mines.
I guess if it's still going, I guess yup, they probably will.
>> Am I angry at them?
No, I support them any way I can.
I just wanna make sure they do what they supposed to be doing.
I'm thinking about all the young boys that they- that might be
in a mine 15, 20 years, or 30 years, whatever.
I don't wanna see them in my shape.
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