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Sam Petsonk grew up around southern West Virginia's mining communities, visiting patients with his father, one of the country's first doctors to specialize in Black Lung Disease.

"When I was a child, I'd look up and I'd see coal miners — seemingly larger than life, doubled over coughing, scarcely able to walk, work or breathe," Petsonk says, "I've seen it my whole life. I remember it as a kid, and still see it today."

Today, Petsonk's whole law practice in Oak Hill, W.Va., exclusively represents coal miners. He often takes cases of people sickened on the job, and he relies on the records gathered by the respiratory health unit of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionthat runs the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program. It offers, essentially, a very unique kind of guaranteed workplace healthcare: By law, it gives every miner in the country – roughly 50,000– access to care for free.

The 25 people working in that unit were put on immediate administrative leave on April 1; they are out of their jobs, along with about 10,000 other federal healthworkers later this spring.

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The lab sent mobile x-ray units to mines to screen miners regularly. It authorized job transfers for miners showing signs of disease. And the unit also trained and certified doctors to read specialized lung scans. Petsonk says that health service has become an essential part of mining life. But President Trump's sweeping cutbacks at the nation's health agencies last week included this small team running a program coal miners are entitled to by law.

"It's a bedrock institution for the medical profession that has been obliterated," Petsonk says. "It's just unacceptable."

The program's roots date back to a lethal Farmington, W.Va. mining explosion that killed 78 workers in 1968. The disaster led to passage of the Federal Coal Mine and Safety Act, which in turn added the miners' surveillance program under the respiratory healthdivision at NIOSH.

Lawsuit filed

Late Monday, Petsonk filed a class-action lawsuit against Robert F. Kennedy Jr and the agency he now runs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to reinstate the respiratory health unit within CDC's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Healththat ran the program epidemiologist Scott Laney calls "the nation's doctor for coal miners."