min·er's nys·tag·mus nystagmus occurring in coal miners in the 19th century and thought at the time to be related to lack of illumination as well as other factors. Synonym(s): miner's disease miner's nystagmus Nystagmus occurring in those who work in comparative darkness for long periods. See also: nystagmus nystagmus A regular, repetitive ...
Dirty, dark, dangerous: coal miners' nystagmus. February 13, 2020. Ronald Fishman Chicago, Illinois, United States . A coal miner without a headlamp digging an undercut at the coal face, using only the dim light supplied by a small flame lamp. From Snell 12: It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Absolute darkness: A day in a miner's life ... Uğur Kandemiroğlu, 44, is just one of the thousands of miners in Zonguldak. Every day, when he is about to leave the house to go to work, he sees the worry in his family's eyes. ... He usually works with a crane the miners call a "varagel," which helps miners transfer the mined coal from one ...
Coal mining is deeply ingrained in Appalachian life. As a coal miner's daughter, I recall how the black dust embedded in my father's fingerprints left sooty smudges on every birthday card and paycheck. His brown eyes, lined with kohl, live in my memory.
3/27/2020· David Pratt Sr. was born in 1962 in a coal camp in Vicco, Kentucky, to a long line of coal miners who spent most of their lives underground. He started mining at age 17, making $11.75 an hour — about $42 an hour today. "Big money," Senior told me, eyes wide. "And money was hard to come by."
Rashaad Thomas tells us that he's an upset victim who deserves an apology because he went into a restaurant in Phoenix and they had up a picture of coal miners. This is one of those modern cases of "victimization" where you have to be told what the problem is because not being a b*tchy little crybaby, you wouldn't be able to guess.
1/25/2016· A strong, skilled coal loader might fill five or more cars in a day. In West ia's colliers, miners were paid 49 cents per ton of clean coal, compared with 76 cents in the unionized mines of Ohio. Under these terms, a hard worker could earn $2.00 for ten to …
Dirty, dark, dangerous: coal miners' nystagmus. February 13, 2020. Ronald Fishman Chicago, Illinois, United States . A coal miner without a headlamp digging an undercut at the coal face, using only the dim light supplied by a small flame lamp. From Snell 12: It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Attractions near Coal Miners Memorial: (0.23 mi) The Brick Saloon (1.19 mi) Swiftwater Cellars (3.56 mi) South Cle Elum Rail Yard National Historic District (0.22 mi) Roslyn Historical Museum (3.47 mi) Caboose Bar and Grill; View all attractions near Coal Miners Memorial on Tripadvisor $
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United Kingdom and South Africa, a coal mine and its structures are a colliery, a coal mine is a 'pit', and ...