File:403px-Black Lung Laboratory Coal-556568.jpg

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Corn, Jack, 1929-, Photographer (NARA record: 8464440) Record creator Environmental Protection Agency. (12/02/1970 - ) Title English: A miner at the Black Lung Laboratory in the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, is having his lung capacity tested to determine whether he has the disease. Blood samples also are taken and his heartbeat is monitored while walking on a treadmill. These and other known testing methods are used to determine if miners have coal dust particles in their lungs which cause a progressive shortness of breath. Français : Un mineur subissant des tests de capacité pulmonaire, au Black Lung Laboratory ( "Laboratoire du poumon noir") de l'Hôpital régional des Appalaches à Beckley, en Virginie-Occidentale. Son rythme cardiaque est également surveillée alors qu'il marche sur un tapis roulant. Des échantillons de sang sont également prélevés à cette occasion. Place Beckley (Raleigh county, West Virginia, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place (37.767°N 81.183°W; NARA geographical record) Date June 1974 Current location National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Link back to Institution infobox template wikidata:Q6970415 Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S)

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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 556568. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/− Record group: Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 - 2006 (National Archives Identifier: 708 ) Series: DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, compiled 1972 - 1977 (National Archives Identifier: 542493 ) Agency-Assigned Identifier: 236/16/014116 NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-412-DA-14116 412-DA-14116 Source U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Other versions Please do not overwrite this file: any restoration work should be uploaded with a new name and linked in this page's "other versions=" parameter, so that this file represents the exact file found in the NARA catalog record to which it links. The metadata on this page was imported directly from NARA's catalog record; additional descriptive text may be added by Wikimedians to the template below with the "description=" parameter, but please do not modify the other fields. (Note: Editors who post this notice are strongly encouraged to add details explaining how it applies to this file.)

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