Qld to screen miners for lung disease

By Marty Silk
Updated September 1 2020 - 8:21am, first published 8:14am
Queensland's 15,000 metal mine and quarry workers will health checks for black lung and silicosis.
Queensland's 15,000 metal mine and quarry workers will health checks for black lung and silicosis.

The Queensland government give thousands of metal mine and quarry workers free chest x-rays and restrict dust levels at mines in a bid to cut high levels of lung disease.

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