>> >> There used to be a lot of those. Coal miners tended to die young
>> from
>> >> the dust spewed out by cutting and transporting machinery. Silicosis they used to call
>> it.
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>> Similar issues in other areas too. Cotton when being milled/spun/weaved threw dust in all directions
>> - industrial disease in that industry was known as byssinosis.
thats if they weren't burned to death first. Cotton dust and oils and grease from the machinery made good accelerant
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