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MSHA Report: Roof Bolter Was Electrocuted In Boone County Mine
The agency said in its preliminary report that he’d come in contact with a hook energized by a 480-volt cable that supplied power to a roof bolting machine.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMay 6, 1968: Incident at Hominy Falls Traps 25 Miners for Days
On May 6, 1968, a continuous miner machine cut into an unmapped coal mine at Hominy Falls in Nicholas County. The incident unleashed a torrent of water…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsRecord Low Year for On-the-Job Coal Mining Deaths
The nation's coal mines are nearing a record low mark for on-the-job deaths for the third year in a row and have a chance to keep the number of fatal…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCoal Miner Killed Monday in Monongalia Co. Mining Accident
State regulators say a coal miner is dead following an accident at a Monongalia County mine.The West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and…
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Two Miners Die in Boone County Mine
Officials from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration say two workers were trapped and killed in an accident at a West Virginia coal mine. The…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsW.Va. miner killed on Friday identified
Update Monday October 7 9:00 a.m. Leslie Fitzwater with the state Office of Miner's Health Safety and training says 62-year-old Roger R. King from…
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