Friday, April 23, 2010
ICG Miner Dies
WEST VIRGINIA....
State mine office spokeswoman Jama Jarrett says a 28 year old miner at International Coal Group's Beckley Pocahontas Mine in Raleigh County died Friday morning in surgery after being pinned between a coal rib and continuous mining machine late Thursday night. The accident comes in the same month as 29 West Virginia miners lost their lives in the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years.
State mine office spokeswoman Jama Jarrett says a 28 year old miner at International Coal Group's Beckley Pocahontas Mine in Raleigh County died Friday morning in surgery after being pinned between a coal rib and continuous mining machine late Thursday night. The accident comes in the same month as 29 West Virginia miners lost their lives in the nation's worst coal mining disaster in 40 years.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 4:14 PM 
