Monday, April 26, 2010
Miner Killed In Beckley Identified
WEST VIRGINIA....
Federal authorities have identified 28 year old John King as the miner who died after being injured in the April 22nd accident at International Coal Group Inc.'s Beckley Pocahontas mine near Eccles. A preliminary investigation found King was crushed between a block of coal and the conveyor boom of the continuous mining machine he was operating. King had five years of experience, two of them at the Eccles mine, an underground operation which employs 247 people. King is the 33rd coal miner to die on the job in the nation so far this year.
Federal authorities have identified 28 year old John King as the miner who died after being injured in the April 22nd accident at International Coal Group Inc.'s Beckley Pocahontas mine near Eccles. A preliminary investigation found King was crushed between a block of coal and the conveyor boom of the continuous mining machine he was operating. King had five years of experience, two of them at the Eccles mine, an underground operation which employs 247 people. King is the 33rd coal miner to die on the job in the nation so far this year.
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