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New details have emerged about how a coal miner was killed in Taylor County last week.
A preliminary report from the Mine Safety And Health Administration says William J. Crandall was fatally injured while attempting to rerail a longwall electrical power car.
The MSHA report says Crandall was struck in the head on Aug. 5 at the Arch Resources Tygart Valley Leer Mine and died of his injuries two days later.
Crandall, 57, had been on the job for 11 years. Crandall’s death is the third this year of a coal miner in West Virginia.
MSHA categorized Crandall’s cause of death as powered haulage, mobile mining equipment. That is a leading category for serious and fatal injuries at the nation’s mines, and not just coal.
A miner died last month in Pennsylvania in another powered haulage accident. So did 33-year-old Ashley Cogar, a truck driver who was killed last month in Wyoming County, West Virginia.
