Countless lawsuits have been filed to obtain compensation for affected workers and, more often, their widows. Nowhere was this truer than in coal mining, where fires, cave-ins, and other occupational hazards were ever present but where the greater toll came in the form of lung disease. In 2011, while working as a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, Hamby often came into the orbit of “factory workers, men and women who’d lost loved ones in accidents, or survivors whose lives had been forever altered” by some malfeasance or another on the part of the bosses. An investigative reporter takes on big coal in a tangled account of the battle for justice for miners stricken with lung disease.
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