Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Harlan County Mine Foreman Killed
Fifty-eight year old Wilson Rome Meade was pronounced dead in the emergency room of Harlan Applachian Regional Hospital around 8:00 P.M. Tuesday night after being injured in a mining accident just after 7:00 P.M. at the D&C Mining Corporation in Harlan County.MSHA reports that Meade, who was a section foreman, was injured when a chain, holding a load of concrete blocks in a scoop, came loose, letting the blocks roll down a slope, crushing him against a conveyor belt.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 4:09 PM 
