Arendt was the son of a miner who died early from pneumoconiosis. It is a type of pneumoconiosis. The move was necessitated from her father's struggles with Coalworker's pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease. There is no cure or discovered treatments for Pneumoconiosis. In 1952, Alabama became the first state to provide compensation for coal workers' pneumoconiosis. Asbestosis resembles many other diffuse interstitial lung diseases, including other pneumoconiosis. This research was known as the Pneumoconiosis Field Research (PFR). May also be caused by pneumoconiosis and long-term fume inhalation. The numbers employed slowly dropped and new workers did not have to be pneumoconiosis sufferers. If exposure is long-term, symptoms may become chronic and result in benign pneumoconiosis. A 2019 case study of hard-metal pneumoconiosis was published in the "European Respiratory Journal". In 2013 pneumoconiosis resulted in 260,001 deaths up from 251,000 deaths in 1990. By 1965 over 500 men, all pneumoconiosis sufferers, were working at the factory.