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.

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.