Two workers injured in mining accident
Published: Apr. 14, 2020 at 12:37 PM EDT
Officials say two West Virginia coal miners were hospitalized after a pillar fell on them.
A spokesman for the Office of Mine Safety Health and Training says the Leer Mine Complex workers had serious but non-life threatening injuries after a pillar rib failure just before 4 a.m. Tuesday.
The Taylor County mining complex is owned by Arch Coal. Safety inspectors were called to the site.
A state report of the incident said the pillar briefly trapped the two workers.
