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A coal miner was killed on the job Friday in Raleigh County.
Friday’s death of a coal miner at the Black Eagle mine is the second this year in West Virginia.
The mine is operated by Marfork Coal Company, a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources, based in Bristol, Tennessee.
Alpha is one of the nation’s top producers of metallurgical coal, the kind used to make steel.
The incident comes a month after the death of Steven Fields, a drill operator, at the Twilight Surface Mine in Boone County.
There have been four coal mine fatalities this year, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, including one in Pennsylvania and one in Ohio.
MSHA is investigating Friday’s incident.
Two former correctional officers from the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of a pretrial detainee, Quantez Burks, on March 1, 2022. ...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe miners, Joshua Cochran, 45, and Shawn Turley, 53, worked in Massey and Alpha mines for more than two decades. Both have developed complicated black lung.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsGov. Patrick Morrisey hosted a press conference in Beckley on Tuesday to express support for a Raleigh County mother suing the state's board of education over school vaccine policies.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThere were few signs in recent months that Core Natural Resources would shut down a southern West Virginia coal mine, leaving more than 200 workers looking for a job.
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