AdvertisementDocumenting 'Dirty' Jobs: Miners At WorkJuly 09, 2012Becky LettenbergerfacebookEmailCoal miner Lee Hipshire in 1976, shortly after emerging from a mine in Logan County, W.Va. at the end of his shift. At age 36, he had worked 26 years underground. A few years later, Lee took early retirement because of pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease. He died at 57. (Courtesy of Earl Dotter)