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The Hard Life of Working in a Coal Mine

The Hard Life of Working in a Coal Mine

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Taken from JRE #2085 w/Charles Wesley Godwin:

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  1. Underground miner here. Sleeping in my car watching this right now and it's below zero degrees. Looking forward to be home, but then will be back here at the mine after one day off.
    As an underground miner in Colorado, thank you Joe. We need recognition. I do this for my family and to support my goals. For my country, for society to improve, and for my family.
    Hard life, I wish others could understand a fraction.

  2. My dad was a superintendent coal minner in utah. Also worked for console. He went to a mine in the Appalachian on the east coast. Said it was the most unsafe mine he'd ever been in. 20 mile mine in Colorado is the largest coal mine in America, if not the world. Their coal face is 20+ miles underground.

    Edit: he died of black lung, which is caused by breathing in coal dust. It's now regulated and each miner wears a regulator that monitors the air

  3. Yea my pap in Northern West Virginia worked in a coal mines for 40 years right after getting back from Vietnam was a head mechanic for a few of the mines up there. Now my uncle's both still do it.

  4. My gr8 grandfather did this and helped lots of families survive by getting them work doing this and steel milling, and was the pioneer of our family, what he started is still going strong today. Sadly he died of lung cancer from doing that kind of work. Maintained a full fruit n vegetable garden all year round and chicken coop. You had to be a different breed back then.

  5. Fun fact btw I live about 1 or 2 hours away from that “town in Pennsylvania” Centralia. The town is so eerie and abandoned that they actually shot the horror movie Silent Hill there or at least it was based on the town. Look up photos man it’s creepy as hell. 😮 coal mine burning for YEARS

  6. Honest question…who cares?? I remember a few years ago when a presidential candidate offered to get these same workers trained through a program that would make them ready for more modern jobs they were up in arms that they didn't want it. So maybe these peeps just ain't the brightest bunch.

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