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Updated: 6:01 PM Jul 29, 2010
Miner Killed in Accident at Northern W.Va. Mine; Name Released
A coal miner has been killed in a Consol Energy mine in northern West Virginia.
Posted: 3:08 PM Jul 29, 2010Reporter: The Associated Press Email Address: news@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE 7/29/10 @ 6 p.m.
FAIRVIEW, W.Va. (AP) - Consol Energy has identified the coal miner killed at its Loveridge Mine in northern West Virginia.
The Canonsburg, Pa.-based company says 39-year-old Jessie Adkins of Belington was pinned between coal and other material that fell from the Marion County mine's wall and a piece of heavy equipment late Thursday morning. Adkins was pronounced dead at Fairmont General Hospital.
Consol says Adkins had been a miner for seven years and worked at Loveridge for three. He was married and had two teenage children.
Federal and state mining regulators and the United Mine Workers labor union are investigating.
Adkins' death is the 42nd in U.S. coal mines this year, including 29 in an explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia April 5.
ORIGINAL STORY 7/29/10
FAIRVIEW, W.Va. (AP) -- A coal miner has been killed in a Consol Energy mine in northern West Virginia.
State Office of Miners' Health Safety and Training spokesman Hoy Murphy says the victim apparently was killed by a block of coal that fell from the wall of Loveridge Mine in Marion County. The accident occurred about 11:55 a.m. Thursday.
Murphy says the victim was caught between a machine that installs roof supports and a 13-foot long chunk of the mine wall.
The victim's name has not been released.
A spokesman for Canonsburg, Pa.-based Consol had no immediate comment.
The death is the 42nd in U.S. coal mines this year, including 29 men who died in an explosion at Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia April 5.
Latest Comments
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family. I don't know this family but its always tragic to loose a loved one.
Very sad for the family I grew up with them, this family has lost both son's now, they lost the 1st one when he was only 12 to cancer. My heart goes out to them, I was very good friends with the daughter and youngest son, God Bless them all
When will it end. God Bless our Coal Miners.God bless their families
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