coal miner
Underground seam worker
A coal miner is a person who extracts coal from underground or surface mines.
The work has historically been dangerous and physically demanding, associated with black lung disease and mine collapses.
His grandfather was a coal miner in West Virginia.
The term carries connotations of hard manual labor and working-class identity.
- pickaxePointed digging implement
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- canaryYellow caged songbird
- safety lampEnclosed flame for mines
- black lungCoal dust respiratory disease
headlamp · underground · colliery · pit pony · ore · soot · helmet · tunnel · dust · cart · dynamite · shift · lantern · cave-in · seam · anthracite · pit · black gold
- US Miningprospector, prospecting, open pit, smelting, refining
- minersforty-niner, overman, timberman, hoistman, getter
- Coal Countryanthracite, black lung, company towns, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- mininggold, oil, shafts, silver, iron
- coalanthracite, bituminous, lignite, slack, culm
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coal minerCEO
Top corporate officer
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