Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis disease is a type of pneumoconiosis. According to CDC, "pneumoconioses are a group of interstitial lung diseases caused by the inhalation of certain dusts and the lung tissue’s reaction to the dust" (Unknown, 2012). Coal worker's pneumoconiosis(CWP) is one of the common pneumoconioses diseases. CWP is not ethical, sexual, racial, or nutritional related. Instead it is environmental related. This type of pneumoconiosis can happen to anyone, it all depends on how long and how severe the exposure to coal dust is. How is CWP diagnosed?

Different signs and symptoms of CWP include, cough, chest pain, breathlessness, impaired lung function, difficulty breathing, and progressive lung stiffening. There is only one true way to tell if someone has CWP and that is a chest X-ray and pulmonary function testing to see the lungs. These diagnostic studies found that once CWP was diagnosed it was too late to treat. This was due to no early signs. Instead of treating it there were ways that came to prevent it. Due to it being left untreated causes complications like lung cancer, respiratory and heart failure, …show more content…
It starts out with inhaling the severe amounts of coal dust. After the coal dust is inhaled it then reaches the terminal bronchioles. At this point the interstitial macrophages and the alveolar engulf the carbon. After that macrophages transport the coal dust, so that it can be let out in either the mucus or through the lymphatic system. Farhan J Khan, found that, "When this system becomes overwhelmed, the dust-laden macrophages accumulate in the alveoli and may trigger an immune response,"(2015). The main stamp of histology for CWP is coal macules. These are the main areas of focal deposition of coal dust and pigment-laden macrophages. Coal macules then join together and form areas of emphysema. These areas then continue to grow causing CWP, and the impairments that come with